Betting on the Africans
Subtitle: John F. Kennedy's courting of African nationalist leaders
By: Philip E. Muehlenbeck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780195396096
Subjects: Nationalism; History; Autonomy and independence movements; Foreign relations; American Economic assistance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: JFK and the "Greatest revolution in human history"; title: "More royalist than the queen": Eisenhower/Dulles policy toward Africa; title: JFK's early support of African nationalism; title: Kennedy, Sékou Touré, and the success of personal diplomacy; title: Kennedy, Kwame Nkrumah, and the Volta River project decision; title: Kennedy, Julius Nyerere, and self determination in southern Africa; title: Kennedy, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ben Bella, and North African Arab nationalism; title: Kennedy, Felix Houphouët-Boigny, William Tubman, and conservative African nationalism; title: The Kennedy-De Gaulle rivalry in Africa; title: The view from Pretoria; title: Cold War civil rights and Kennedy's courting of African nationalists; title: Contested skies: U.S.-U.S.S.R. competition for African civil aviation markets and the Cuban Missile Crisis; title: Conclusion: the Kennedy legacy in Africa.