This is a provocative work that runs counter to the conventional wisdom that the poor are poor because the rich are rich

1. Introduction 2. From Noble Savage to Good Revolutionary 3. Latin America and the United States 4. Independence: Its Heroes and Traitors 5. Ariel and Caliban 6. Latin America and Marxism 7. Latin America and the Church 8. Some Home Truths 9. More Home Truths 10. The Forms of Political Power in Latin America