Print Sources
1. Andersen, Martin Edwin. Dossier Secreto. Boulder: Westview Press, Inc., 1993. Martin Andersen works for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has written articles about the Dirty War for many newspapers including Newsweek and The Washington Post. I used this book for learning about the various ways the junta repressed the people, getting exact statistics about the Dirty War, and learning about specific people who were involved in the regime.
2. Boesche, Roger. Theories of Tyranny From Plato to Arendt. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. In this work Robert Boesche analyzes the political thinkers of yesterday and today. I used this source to learn information about Arendt's definition of totalitarianism so I could use her standards to judge if the Argentine regime was totalitarian.
3.The New Encyclopaedia Britannica:Macropedia. "Argentina".. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1986. I used the Encyclopaedia for facts about the leaders, dates, and historical setting of the Dirty War.
4. Graham-Yooll, Andrew. A Matter of Fear. Westport: Lawrence Hill & Co., Inc., 1981. I used this source to learn about the individual stories behind the disappeared and the censorship that he faced while trying to write news articles during the time of the junta.
5. Liebowitz, Sol. Places and Peoples of the World: Argentina. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990. Sol Liebowitz researched Argentina for this book about the country in general that included information about the Dirty War in relation to the government and the people of Argentina. I used this source to learn about the causes of both the beginning and the end of the junta.
6. Rock, David. Argentina 1516-1982. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. David Rock has written many books about Latin America while he has worked as a Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. I used this source for fairly general information about the historical setting for the junta and the disappeared.
7. Rosenberg, Tina. Children Of Cain . New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1992. Tina Rosenberg is a journalist who was especially interested in the Dirty War and went to Argentina to talk to many of the people involved. I used this source for learning about the torture and prison life , the military leaders, and the methods of censorship the junta used.
8. Simpson, John and Bennett, Jana. The Disappeared and the Mothers of the Plaza. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Both John Simpson and Jana Bennett work as journalists for the BBC in London and have worked with foreign affairs for many years. I used this source to learn about what the Mothers of the Plaza did and what happened to many of the disappeared.