- Additional Authors
- Kornbluh, Peter.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 524 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba--beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo--this fascinating book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, LeoGrande and Kornbluh present a new and increasingly more relevant account. From Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Castro after the missile crisis, to Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Obama's promise of a 'new approach,' LeoGrande and Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path toward better relations in the future"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Back channel to Cuba (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Back channel to Cuba (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references(pages 485-500) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Rebuilding bridges -- Eisenhower : patience and forbearance -- Kennedy : the secret search for accommodation -- Johnson : Castro reaches out -- Nixon and Ford : Kissinger's Caribbean d'tente -- Carter : close, but no cigar -- Reagan and Bush : diplomatic necessity -- Clinton : from calibrated response to parallel positive steps -- George W. Bush : turning back the clock -- Obama : a new beginning? -- Intimate adversaries, possible friends.
- LCCN
- 2014013123
- OCLC
- ssj0001290327
- Author
LeoGrande, William M.
- Title
Back channel to Cuba [electronic resource] : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana / William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references(pages 485-500) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Kornbluh, Peter.