Tropical Zion
Subtitle: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua
By: Allen Wells.
Series: American encounters/global interactions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780822343899; 9780822344070
Subjects: Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, -- 1891-1961; Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- 1882-1945; Dominican Republic Settlement Association, Inc; Jews -- Dominican Republic -- Sosúa -- History; Jews -- Colonization -- Dominican Republic -- Sosúa; Refugees, Jewish -- Dominican Republic -- Sosúa; Sosúa (Dominican Republic) -- Ethnic relations; United States -- Foreign relations -- Dominican Republic; Dominican Republic -- Foreign relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Our ethnic problem"; title: Think big; title: Jewish farmers; title: Converging interests; title: "The eyes of the world are on the Dominican Republic"; title: One good turn; title: Lives in the balance; title: Playing god; title: Growing pains; title: First impressions; title: Flawed vision; title: Containment; title: Trial and error; title: Middle age; title: The man who saved Sosua; title: A "splendid president"; title: Golden years; title: "The beginning of the end"; title: Ravages of aging.