John Dinges' CHILE IN THEIR HEARTS In Store Author Event and Signing

Join us at Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore on Thursday, May 22nd when author and journalist John Dinges visits the store to present his new book Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup. John will sign copies of his book after the presentation.

Click here to pre-order a copy of Chile in Their Hearts.

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.

In 1972 two idealistic young Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, arrived in Chile to participate in President Salvador Allende's socialist and democratic revolution. A year later they were secretly executed as Chile's military, with U.S. backing, deposed Allende. Following a sham investigation and cover-up, a Chilean defector leveled a stunning but ultimately false accusation: a CIA agent was in the room when one of the killings was ordered.

The defector's tale inspired the acclaimed 1982 film Missing and established U.S. involvement as the accepted narrative. But Chile in Their Hearts exposes the tale as a fabrication and leads us to a more intriguing reality. This book will force readers to rethink what they thought they knew about this infamous case. Renowned investigative journalist John Dinges scoured U.S. and Chilean archives and interviewed new witnesses to reveal the true story of the killings and the compelling adventure of the two Americans' lives against the backdrop of U.S. intervention in Chile.

JOHN DINGES lived in and reported from Chile during its most violent period (1972–78). A correspondent for the Washington Post, and later managing editor at NPR, he is Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Columbia University. His books include The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents.

THIS EVENT is free but registration is requested. Registration ends at 5:30 pm on May 22nd.

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WALK-INS will be accommodated only if space allows.

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