Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana
- Author/Creator:
- LeoGrande, William M.
- Publication/Creation:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana / William M. LeoGrande & Peter Kornbluh
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Kornbluh, Peter
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Negotiation--United States--History
Negotiation--Cuba--History
Reconciliation--History
United States--Foreign relations--Cuba
Cuba--Foreign relations--United States
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
Description/Summary
- Table of 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.
- 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.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xiv, 524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990035170730302486
- ISBN:
- 9781469617633 (cloth : alkaline paper)
1469617633 (cloth : alkaline paper) - OCLC Number:
- 875742399
- Barcode:
- 010002824685
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