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/