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U.S. intervention in British Guiana : a Cold War story
In the first published account of the massive U.S. covert intervention in British Guiana between 1953 and 1969, Stephen G. Rabe uncovers a Cold War story of imperialism, gender bias, and racism.When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964. The political leader preferred by the United States, Forbes Burnham, went on to lead a twenty-year dictatorship in which he persecuted the majority Indian population. Considering race, gender, religion, and ethnicity along with traditional approaches to diplomatic history, Rabe's analysis of this Cold War tragedy serves as a needed corrective to interpretations that depict the Cold War as an unsullied U.S. triumph.
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Kennedy's quest for victory : American foreign policy, 1961-1963
Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death and the recent opening of historical documents, this timely volume of original essays offers a much-needed reassessment of the Kennedy years. Based on extensive research in archives and oral histories, the contributors explore the primary foreign policy assumptions and objectives of Kennedy and his advisers, and examine the importance of domestic politics, international change, personality and style, and historical lessons in shaping Kennedy's diplomacy.Discussing such key issues as the \"New Atlantic Community,\" Kennedy's defense of American economic hegemony, the Cuban missile crisis, the covert war against Fidel Castro, and the Kennedy administration's involvement with the Middle East, China, Vietnam, and the establishment of the Peace Corps, the contributors assess the costs and consequences of Kennedy's policies. Together, the essays address the need to reckon with a past that has not always matched the selfless and self-satisfying image Americans have of their foreign policy and of Kennedy as their young, fallen hero who never had a chance.
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