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John F. Kennedy - World Leader (Paperback)
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John F. Kennedy - World Leader (Paperback)
Series: Issues in the History of American Foreign Relations
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President John F. Kennedy remains a subject of fascination for both
historians and citizens. Consistently ranked among the most popular
U.S. presidents, Kennedy led the country during a time of rapid
social change at home punctuated by critical foreign policy crises,
among them the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba, the showdown with the
Soviet Union over the erection of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban
missile crisis, and the escalation of American involvement in
Vietnam.As Stephen G. Rabe explains in this introduction to
American foreign policy at the height of the Cold War, Kennedy
perceived himself as a foreign policy president. Time and again,
the president used the threat of force, good diplomacy, and sound
judgment to keep the world from falling into the abyss of nuclear
war. But Kennedy did more than manage foreign policy crises. He
launched major economic development programs for Latin America,
India, and Egypt and dispatched Peace Corps volunteers around the
world. He attempted to mediate the Arab-Israeli dispute and to stop
the spread of nuclear weapons to China and Israel. Under Kennedy,
the United States began for the first time to develop a policy for
Africa.Taking a fresh look at Kennedy s wide-ranging efforts to
change the world, Rabe devotes chapters to U.S. relations with the
Soviet Union, Cuba, Latin America, and Vietnam. The author also
evaluates Kennedy s approach to India, China, Egypt, and Israel and
such African nations as Algeria, Angola, and South Africa. Rabe
concludes by exploring whether Kennedy was contemplating a new
approach toward the Soviet Union, one that, had Kennedy lived to
see reelection, might have soon ushered in the era of detente.
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