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...Lars Schoultz The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America . By Rabe Stephen C. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1999 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 257 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Paper , $17.95...

...Robert J. Alexander Kennedy y los Trujillo . By Vega Bernardo . Santo Domingo : Fundación Cultural Dominicana , 1991 . Photos. Notes. Index , iii , 423 pp. Paper . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 This book, by a distinguished Dominican scholar, is based...

...Robert Woodward A Thousand Days. John F. Kennedy in the White House . By Schlesinger Arthur M. Jr. Boston , 1965 . Houghton Mifflin Company . Index . Pp. v , 1087 . $9.00 . Copyright 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Arthur M. Schlesinger reveals again his prize...

...John Kennedy Espíritu y vida de la constitución . By Mitre Jorge A. . Buenos Aires , 1958 . Emecé Editores . Prologue . Pp. 120 . Paper. $40 pesos. Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

...John Norman Kennedy 87 Lugar, p. 7; Amaral, p. 405, 416. 86 Ibid ., pp. 90-96, 367-370. Also see Braz do Amaral, História da independência na Bahia (Salvador da Bahia, 1957), pp. 65-72, 175-178, 236-246, 318. 85 Varnhagen, História da independência do Brasil (Rio, 1917), pp...

...James Nelson Goodsell The Middle Beat: A Correspondent’s View of Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador . By Kennedy Paul P. . Edited by Ross Stanley R. . New York , 1971 . Teachers College Press, Columbia University . Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. xix , 235 . Cloth. $8.50...

...Ramón Eduardo Ruiz Thirteen Days. A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis . By Kennedy Robert F. . Introductions by McNamara Robert S. and MacMillan Harold . New York , 1970 . Franklin Watts . Illustrations. Facsimiles. Index . Pp. 224 . Cloth, $8.95 . Copyright 1971...

..., NSF, Box 13. 51 Department of State, Bulletin , vol. 47 (1962), p. 585. 52 Ibid., vol. 48 (1963), p. 296. Public Papers, 1962 , p. 882. 53 Reuter to Reardon, Sept. 23, 1963, White House Central Files, Box 234, Kennedy Library. See also D. Rockefeller to President, Nov. 29, 1963...

... hour-to-hour news reports of the crisis, two superpowers verged on military confrontation and threatened each other—and a goodly portion of the world—with nuclear annihilation. John F. Kennedy emerged from the crisis with an image of a forthright but responsible decision-maker, and his Soviet...

... idealistic for policymakers to implement” (p. 7). Taffet’s research for this volume is heavily tilted toward US holdings — the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and Johnson’s and Kennedy’s presidential libraries — without much from Latin American archives. This concern notwithstanding, Foreign...

... generals worked with the United States to spread murderous military rule in Bolivia, Uruguay, and Chile. Kirkendall speculates that if he had lived, President Kennedy might not have authorized US participation in the overthrow. But based on the Kennedy administration's antagonistic policies toward Goulart...

.... In retrospect, Hilsman’s only regret is that the Kennedy administration did not anticipate this move and give the Soviet Union a prompt and clear warning of the consequences. The author is on less-firm ground in his analysis of the Jupiter missile issue. While admitting that these IRBMs were obsolete...

... the context of the hostility between Cuba and Venezuela. President Betancourt so despised Castro that he volunteered to participate in the Kennedy administration's assassination plots against the Cuban. Miller also uncritically accepts Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports about Cuban activity...

... because the selections not only give the complete text but also a complete citation of source. Professor Pachter’s very real contribution is in his dramatic synthesis and imaginative reconstruction of the critical events in the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation in those tense days in October-November...

... falls into two parts. The first, and more rewarding half, analyzes the response of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations to the Cuban Revolution. The second half surveys the impact of the revolution on public opinion in the United States. The second half is a little anticlimactic, since Welch’s...

...D. M. P. Until now the standard work on the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 has been Elie Abel’s well-researched if journalistic account, The Missile Crisis . This memoir by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy is not likely to displace it, despite the publicity which the new book has inspired...

... to intimidate Latin Americans supporting the revolution. This section resembles standard U.S. textbook accounts, except that it emphasizes the Kennedy administration’s inventory of diplomatic and clandestine actions attempting to discredit revolutionary Cuba in Latin America and destabilize the Castro...

... no primary data; he relies on secondary sources throughout. The book is so poorly documented that the author retreats into left-wing conspiracy theories. Brown accuses hard-line cold warriors in the intelligence community of planning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He parrots filmmaker Oliver...

... write something superior to what is now available. He has done this, but he has done it under the needless burden of trite phrases and clumsy transitions. The opening and closing chapters are the most provocative. In each there is a tendency to ascribe to President John F. Kennedy (to whose memory...

... of State Security. In that capacity he cooperated, under orders from the Cuban government, with the Select Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in investigating, in 1978, the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Escalante transferred to the powerful Ministry of the Interior (MININT) under Division...