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Author LeoGrande, William M.

Title Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana / William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

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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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
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Subject Negotiation -- United States -- History
Negotiation -- Cuba -- History
Reconciliation -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Diplomatic relations
Negotiation
Reconciliation
Geheimdiplomatie
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
Subject Cuba
United States
USA
Kuba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kornbluh, Peter
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