Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism - Softcover

Rabe, Stephen G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807842044 ISBN 13: 9780807842041

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1988

Synopsis

Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent "Eisenhower revisionism."

During his first term, Eisenhower paid little attention to Latin America but his objective there was clear: to prevent communism from gaining a foothold. The Eisenhower administration was prepared to cooperate with authoritarian military regimes, but not to fund developmental aid or vigorously promote political democracy. Two events in the second administration convinced Eisenhower that he had underestimated the extent of popular unrest--and thus the potential for Communist inroads: the stoning of Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in Caracas and the radicalization of the Cuban Revolution. He then began to support trade agreements, soft loans, and more strident measures that led to CIA involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion and plots to assassinate Fidel Castro and Rafael Trujillo. In portraying Eisenhower as a virulent anti-Communist and cold warrior, Rabe challenges the Eisenhower revisionists who view the president as a model of diplomatic restraint.

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Book Description:

"Rabe writes so lucidly and rationally that one can readily understand what happened under Eisenhower and why current Latin American policy indicates that we have learned little from that experience."-- Teaching History

From the Back Cover:

Stephen Rabe examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in the light of recent 'Eisenhower revisionism.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0807842044
• ISBN 13: 9780807842041
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248