Decade of Transition - Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance (Hardcover, New)

Historians have long held that the Kennedy administration forged the American alliance with Israel as a way of courting political support from American Jews. In contrast, the Eisenhower administration is believed to have considered Israel a political and strategic liability. In this text, Abraham Ben-Zvi challenges these assumptions and offers a different account of Eisenhower's true agenda. Ben-Zvi now shows that the Eisenhower years were an "incubation period" during which the groundwork was laid for the eventual American-Israeli alliance. As a result, President Kennedy's Israeli policy is understood as not the beginning, but a continuation of a process with foundations in the prior administration.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1998
First published:	August 1998
Authors:	Abraham Ben-Zvi
Dimensions:	235 x 165 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-11262-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	0-231-11262-9
Barcode:	9780231112628

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