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Indlæser... Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbeanaf Alex Von Tunzelmann
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. An outstanding overview of Cold War politics in the Caribbean theater. The United States, in its anticommunist zeal, found itself propping up such psychopathic, bloodthirsty despots as Duvalier in Haiti and Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. "Red Heat" is the story of how American foreign policy helped destroy any chance democracy to emerge in Haiti and the Dominican Republic as well as elsewhere in the Caribbean and Latin American area. Extensive footnotes. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Red Heat should be required reading for anyone with any interest in the Americas. It is refreshing to get a different perspective on the Cold War as it was played out in the Caribbean. Alex Tunzelmann does a tremendous job in building up the big picture of Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the 50’s and 60’s and US foreign policy efforts to control the region. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. With the exception of two events, the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Caribbean is not prominent on the Cold War stage. Red Heat could change that. It is a very readable account of this region during the 1950s and 1960s, highlighting missed opportunities that could have eased tension years earlier. Future Presidents should read and learn from Kennedy’s mistakes and not take information at face value, no matter the source. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the sure global reach of the Cold War. Expressed through the stories of five leaders of Cuba, the DR, and Haiti. Readers are sure to see a new historical perspective from an often-overlooked part of the world. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are presented in this story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the period of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the United States and the Soviet Union acted out the world's tensions on three important island nations, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, the leaders of these nations--the charismatic Fidel Castro and his mysterious brother Raúl; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture--had ambitions of their own. The superpowers thought they could use Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. Historian Alex von Tunzelmann's narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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It does have value for the amount of detail included including two particular details. The author does document how Fidel Castro was not a diehard comments from the very beginning. In fact, even saw the support of United States early upon his arrival on the scene. Also, apparently Khrushchev was the one who wanted to keep missiles in Cuba a secret while Castro wanted the movement of missiles to be public. Castro by hindsight may have been correct and may have alleviated Kennedy's concerns towards their placement.
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