Robert A. Potash, The Army & Politics in Argentina 1962–1973: From Frondizi's Fall to the Peronist Restoration (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. xv+547, £40.00 (original) (raw)

The author acknowledges that he has made liberal use of ecclesiastical sources, in contrast to military documents to which his access was blocked. This is reflected in the weight given to Catholicism in the text, so that the two institutions are not as equally treated as the subtitle would suggest. This should not lead us to question his conclusions, however: compared to the Church, the Argentine Army before the i960s was always short on doctrines and ideas beyond narrowly institutional concerns.