AN AMERICAN IN REVOLUTIONARY NICARAGUAMitchel Cohens memoir gets across the feel of those hopeful days of the Nicaraguan revolution in the 1980s as well as the sights, sounds, and smells. He captures the combination of excitement and trepidation U. S. leftists felt as they prepared to leave, along with the roadblocks: from relatives who thought Nicaragua was inhabited by cannibals to the DC based left bureaucrats who apparently didnt consider Mitchel respectable enough to join their