Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana /
LeoGrande, William M.
Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana / William M. LeoGrande & Peter Kornbluh. - xiv, 524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9781469617633 (cloth : alkaline paper) 1469617633 (cloth : alkaline paper)
2014013123
Negotiation--History.--United States
Negotiation--History.--Cuba
Reconciliation--History.
United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
E183.8.C9 / L384 2014
327.7307291
Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana / William M. LeoGrande & Peter Kornbluh. - xiv, 524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
9781469617633 (cloth : alkaline paper) 1469617633 (cloth : alkaline paper)
2014013123
Negotiation--History.--United States
Negotiation--History.--Cuba
Reconciliation--History.
United States--Foreign relations--Cuba.
Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
United States--Foreign relations--1989-
E183.8.C9 / L384 2014
327.7307291