{"product_id":"9781583220689","title":"The Death of Ben Linder","description":"By: Joan Kruckewitt     \u003chr\u003eIn 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's \"freedom fighters\" -- the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras -- ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story. \u003cbr\u003eIn the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American named Ben Linder arrived in Managua with a unicycle and a newly earned degree in engineering. In 1986, Linder moved from Managua to El Cuá, a village in the Nicaraguan war zone, where he helped form a team to build a hydroplant to bring electricity to the town. He was ambushed and killed by the Contras the following year while surveying a stream for a possible hydroplant. \u003cbr\u003eIn 1993, Kruckewitt traveled to the Nicaraguan mountains to investigate Linder's death. In July 1995. she finally located and interviewed one of the men who killed Ben Linder, a story that became the basis for a New Yorker feature on Linder's death. Linder's story is a portrait of one idealist who died for his beliefs, as well as a picture of a failed foreign policy, vividly exposing the true dimensions of a war that forever marked the lives of both Nicaraguans and Americans.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46761781166307,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781583220689","price":109.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US - Hardback","offer_id":46764697977059,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781888363968","price":160.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781583220689.jpg?v=1751560229","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9781583220689","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}