Airlift to America
Subtitle: how Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African students changed their world and ours
By: Tom Shachtman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780312570750
Subjects: African-American Students Federation; College students -- Africa, East -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Relations -- East Africa; East Africa -- Relations -- United States
Table of contents: title: Cold War and moral crusades; title: American labor and the rise of Tom Mboya; title: Alliance formed; title: The Harambee kids; title: The college experience; title: Crisis time : Kennedy vs. Nixon on the airlift; title: The airlift and the presidential election of 1960; title: Care and feeding; title: A logical evolution.