Kennedy and Latin America /

Martin, Edwin M.

Kennedy and Latin America / Edwin McCammon Martin. - Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1994. - vii, 478 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The battlefield -- Eisenhower to Kennedy -- Kennedy's tools -- Kennedy launches the alliance for progress -- Kennedy promotes political, economic and social development -- Kennedy promotes the alliance for progress in Central America and Mexico -- Kennedy promotes the alliance for progress in South America -- The diplomacy of the Cuba missile crisis -- Results of the alliance for progress -- Kennedy to Johnson.

"The author, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs under President Kennedy, provides extensive, authoritative, and readable insider's view of policies and events"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

0819194298 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780819194299 (cloth : alk. paper)

93048774


Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963.


Latin America--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Latin America.
Hispanoamâerica--Relaciones exteriores--EE. UU.

F1418 / .M375k 1994

327.7308/09/046