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The Kennedys and Cuba, Revised Edition: The Declassified Documentary History
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by Mark J. White
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Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
Published by: Ivan R. Dee, PublisherEdition: Revised Edition September 25, 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1566634024
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1566634021
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Product Review
Kennedy inherited a diplomatic nightmare: Castro's revolution of 1959 that had established a communist government ninety miles from America's shores. Three years later, Russia's decision to deploy nuclear weapons in Cuba triggered the most dangerous episode of the cold war. How John and his brother Robert handled America's prolonged confrontation with Cuba--the Bay of Pigs fiasco, "Operation Mongoose" (a program designed to provoke an anti-Castro uprising), and the Cuban missile crisis--is of supreme diplomatic and historical importance. Mark White of the University of London creates a narrative of the period through official documents that include letters, memoranda, telegrams, radio and television speeches by JFK to the American people, CIA papers, and cabinet notes, much of the material recently released. Policies take shape and personalities emerge as the story unfolds. The contradictions between JFK's public announcements and his private discussions with intimates are particularly striking. At the time, JFK was praised for his handling of the missile crisis; later, doubts arose. In his introduction, White expresses disappointment with "the myopia of the Kennedy team, their almost total inability to consider how their anti-Castro policies would be interpreted by Havana and Moscow, and how those governments might respond." Nevertheless, he allows the record to speak for itself, inviting readers to make their own interpretations. The Kennedys and Cuba provides invaluable raw material for students of America's foreign policy during the cold war and is a fascinating, sometimes chilling, inside view of how closely the world came to nuclear war. --John Stevenson
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Two events involving Cuba stand out in the brief Kennedy presidency: the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. However, Cuba was a major issue in the 1960 election, and "getting tough" with Castro was a major theme of the president and his brother Bobby, as campaign manager and then attorney general. White, a University of London historian who did graduate work in the U.S., has written two books on the missile crisis, so he is well positioned to edit this documentary collection on U.S.-Cuba relations from the day before Kennedy's inauguration until a few days after his assassination. Most documents are drawn from the JFK library, the State Department's Foreign Relations publications, JFK's public papers, recently unearthed documents from Russian archives, and material released by the Assassination Records Review Board. Not an easy read, but full of fascinating information. In light of the current debate about future U.S.-Cuba relations, White's collection should prove valuable. Mary Carroll
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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