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The Bay of Pigs (Paperback)
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The Bay of Pigs (Paperback)
Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
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Loot Price R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
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In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph,
Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's
increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the
openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of
American-owned assets. In little more than a year, President Dwight
D. Eisenhower concluded that Castro must go. In The Bay of Pigs,
Howard Jones provides a concise, incisive, and dramatic account of
the disastrous attempt to overthrow Castro. He deftly examines the
train of missteps and self-deceptions that led to the invasion of
U.S.-trained exiles at the Bay of Pigs. Ignoring warnings from the
ambassador to Cuba, the Eisenhower administration put in motion an
operation that proved nearly unstoppable even after the
inauguration of John F. Kennedy. Meanwhile, the CIA and Pentagon
both voiced confidence in the outcome of the invasion, especially
after coordinating previous successful coups in Guatemala and Iran.
As a vital part of the Cuban effort, the CIA sought to incite a
popular insurrection by recruiting the Mafia's help in engineering
Castro's assassination on the eve of the invasion. And so the
Kennedy administration launched the exile force toward its doom in
Cochinos Bay on April 17, 1961. Jones gives a riveting account of
the battle-and the confusion in the White House-before moving on to
explore its implications. The Bay of Pigs, he writes, set the
course of Kennedy's foreign policy. It was a humiliation for the
administration that fueled fears of Communist domination and pushed
Kennedy toward a hard-line "cold warrior" stance. But at the same
time, the failed attack left him deeply skeptical of CIA and
military advisers and influenced his later actions during the Cuban
missile crisis. Richly researched, vividly written, The Bay of Pigs
offers an engaging and thoughtful account of the turning point in
Kennedy's foreign policy and indeed in foreign policy for decades
to come.
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