"Sebastián Carassai's work is undoubtedly a welcome contribution to the scholarly literature due to the author's exhaustive examination of the complex and shifting relationship between the 'average' Argentine and violence. [T]he book helps readers to understand how middle-class disapproval of armed violence perpetrated by the revolutionary Left was not mirrored in the middle-class response to the terrorist state and in the ways in which collective memories of Peronism and violence continue to shape Argentina even today." -- Cara Levey Journal of Latin American Studies ". The Argentine Silent Majority offers a fine-grained portrait of middle class attitudes.This study merits careful consideration by specialists interested in contemporary Argentine history, class formation, and the ColdWar era." -- Eduardo Elena Hispanic American Historical Review "Carrassai's study is a fantastic experiment in pushing the boundaries of traditional historical methodology, and it is as informative as it is entertaining to read. This work will serve well to set a new agenda for memory studies of this period." -- Jessica Stites Mor American Historical Review ".

The Argentine Silent Majority is a splendid book that greatly advances our understanding of Argentina during the 1970s, while also contributing to the study of middle-class formation and ideological change more generally." -- Matthias vom Hau Social Forces "Carassai's impressive work adds a necessary balance to studies on the 1970s in Argentina and Latin America, enlarging the already complex landscape of collective memories of the period." -- Oscar Chamosa The Historian "Carassai offers a theoretically sophisticated, empirically grounded analysis that not only casts new light on an important period of Argentine history but also is highly relevant to contemporary political and historiographical debates." -- Jorge A. Nallim Canadian Journal of History " The Argentine Silent Majority is an insightful account of the attitudes, perceptions and forms of self-understanding held by the Argentine middle classes with respect to the social and political environment of the 1970s. [A]n important book that offers a fresh and elaborate analytical lens and rich empirical engagement with these understudied aspects of Argentina's history, one that will surely also catch the attention of non-Latin Americanist readers interested in middle-class politics and the links between memory, remembrance and violence." -- Luis Herrán Avila EIAL.