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The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America
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by Stephen G. Rabe
Sales Rank: 933212
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Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press February 3, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 080784764X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807847640
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Product Review
[This book] should help shape the ongoing, often intense, debate over Kennedy and the pivotal U.S. policies in the 1960s.
Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
Product Description
In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the formation of the Alliance for Progress, a program dedicated to creating prosperous, socially just, democratic societies throughout Latin America. Over the next few years, the United States spent nearly $20 billion in pursuit of the Alliance's goals, but Latin American economies barely grew, Latin American societies remained inequitable, and sixteen extraconstitutional changes of government rocked the region. In this close, critical analysis, Stephen Rabe explains why Kennedy's grand plan for Latin America proved such a signal policy failure.
Drawing on recently declassified materials, Rabe investigates the nature of Kennedy's intense anti-Communist crusade and explores the convictions that drove him to fight the Cold War throughout the Caribbean and Latin America-a region he repeatedly referred to as "the most dangerous area in the world." As Rabe acknowledges, Kennedy remains popular in the United States and Latin America, in part for the noble purposes behind the Alliance for Progress. But an unwavering determination to wage Cold War led Kennedy to compromise, even mutilate, those grand goals.
Reader Reviews
This book is an excellent, concise account of Kennedy's policies toward Latin America. Rabe does an exceptional job in presenting the information in a fairhanded manner. The writing is superb and the book is an easy read. It is a must have for those interested in Kennedy, Latin America, or just history in general.
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