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| Named Person: | Kennedy, John Fitzgerald <1917-1963> |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip E Muehlenbeck |
| ISBN: | 9780195396096 019539609X |
| OCLC Number: | 868348472 |
| Description: | XXIII, 333 p. ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Introduction: JFK and the "Greatest Revolution in Human History" ; Part One ; Chapter 1: 'More Royalist than the Queen': Eisenhower/Dulles Policy toward Africa ; Chapter 2: JFK's Early Support of African Nationalism ; Chapter 3: Kennedy, Sekou Toure, and the Success of Personal Diplomacy ; Chapter 4: Kennedy, Kwame Nkrumah, and the Volta River Project Decision ; Chapter 5: Kennedy, Julius Nyerere, and Self Determination in Southern Africa ; Chapter 6: Kennedy, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ben Bella, and North African Arab Nationalism ; Chapter 7: Kennedy, Felix Houphouet-Boigny, William Tubman, and Conservative African Nationalism ; Part Two ; Chapter 8: The Kennedy-de Gaulle Rivalry in Africa ; Chapter 9: The View from Pretoria ; Chapter 10: Cold War Civil Rights and Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalists ; Chapter 11: Contested Skies: U.S.-U.S.S.R. Competition for African Civil Aviation Markets and the Cuban Missile Crisis ; Conclusion: The Kennedy Legacy in Africa ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Responsibility: | Philip E. Muehlenbeck. |
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Phil Muehlenbeck provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of Kennedy's high-profile outreach to African leaders. He challenges previous interpretations that placed the Cold War at the center of Kennedy's relations with that continent's new nations. Muehlenbeck emphasizes instead the ways in which U.S. policy toward Africa in the early 1960s responded to the imperatives of decolonization and nationalism. Kennedy's personal attention to individual Africanleaders, in Betting on the Africans, represents a farsighted exception to the more common pattern of American disinterest in the lands between the Mediterranean and the Cape of Good Hope. Important reading for all those interested in America's relationship with the world, in African history, and in theglobal history turning point of the early 1960s. * Thomas Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln * Challenging the conventional wisdom that judges John F. Kennedy's Africa policies to be little different from those of other American presidents, Muehlenbeck argues convincingly that JFK's strategy of personal diplomacy won the friendship of radical nationalists that other American leaders deemed lost to the Soviet camp. Based on extensive archival research, Muehlenbeck's in-depth analysis of the courtship of African leaders offers a unique window into U.S.-Africanrelations during the early Cold War years. * Elizabeth Schmidt, author of Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958 * In this fine book, Muehlenbeck...makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on US policy toward Africa...A well-written, crisply argued book that scholars, students in applicable classes, and general readers with a serious interest in US foreign policy and African affairs will love. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * Muehlenbeck's well-researched work offers a compelling challenge to the conventional wisdom of continuity in American Cold War foreign policy toward Africa. The book's deep examination of the courtship of African leaders by President John F. Kennedy provides a unique perspective on personal diplomacy, specifically, and U.S.-African relations, generally, during one of the more volatile periods of the Cold War. A thought-provoking opening to our ongoing analysis ofKennedy foreign policy. * George White, Jr., American Historical Review * Unlike other accounts of U.S. /Africa relations, Muehlenbeck's monograph covers the entire continent. Muehlenbeck's portrait of a charismatic American president engaged with the details of African political and economic aspirations is a contribution to the study of U.S./Africa relations as well as the JFK era. * Larry Grubbs, Journal of American History * Read more...
