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Paterson tells the fascinating story of the love-hate relationship that has grown between Cuba and the USA, from Castro's early fund-raising tours in the USA to support his revolution to Eisenhower's failed efforts to maintain support for Batista.
The first major reassessment of John F. Kennedy's foreign policy
since his death, this volume of original essays compels new
thinking about the 1960s. Basing their analysis on extensive
research in archival documents and oral histories, twelve
accomplished historians explore the primary foreign policy
assumptions and objectives of Kennedy and his advisers. The
contributors examine the Cold War, global crisis, domestic
politics, decision-making, personality and style, and historical
lessons in shaping Kennedy's diplomacy.
This provocative volume explores such key issues as the Atlantic
alliance, nuclear arms, United States economic hegemony, the Cuban
missile crisis and the covert war against Fidel Castro, Third World
neutralism, the Peace Corps, and the Vietnam War. The contributors
also examine the Kennedy Administration's policies towards Latin
America, Canada, the Middle East, South Asia, China, and Africa,
and assess the costs and consequences of Kennedy's record. The
Kennedy legacy included a deepening war in Vietnam, an accelerated
nuclear arms race, excessive activism in the Third World, greater
factionalism in the Atlantic community, and a globalism of
overcommitment.
These well-researched essays challenge us to reckon with a past
that has not always matched the selfless and self-satisfying image
Americans have of their foreign policy and of Kennedy as their
young, fallen hero who never had a chance to fulfill his goals.
Identifying arrogance, ignorance, impatience, and exaggerations of
the Communist threat as the factors that actually denied Kennedy
the victory he craved, this study reveals that he had his
chance--and he failed.
This provocative volume, written by the distinguished diplomatic
historian Thomas G. Paterson, explores why and how Americans have
perceived and exaggerated the Communist threat in the last half
century. Basing his spirited analysis on research in private
papers, government archives, oral histories, contemporary writings,
and scholarly works, Paterson explains the origins and evolution of
United States global intervention. Deftly exploring the ideas and
programs of Truman, Kennan, Eisenhower, Dulles, Kennedy, Nixon,
Kissinger, and Reagan, as well as the views of dissenters from the
prevailing Cold War mentality, Paterson reveals the tenacity of
American thinking about threats from abroad. He recaptures the
tumult of the last several decades by treating a wide range of
topics, including post-war turmoil in Western Europe, Mao's rise in
China, the Suez Canal, the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War,
CIA covert actions, and Central America.
Paterson's vivid account of America's Cold War policies argues
that, while Americans did not invent the Communist threat, they
have certainly exaggerated it, nurturing a trenchant anti-communism
that has had a devastating effect on international relations and
American institutions.
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