Acknowledgments
Prologue
1: Genesis
2: Trinidad
3: Zapata
4: Politics
5: D-Day
6: Requiem
7: Inquisition
Epilogue
Abbreviations in Notes
Bibliography
Howard Jones is the author of Mutiny on the Amistad and Death of a Generation. He is University Research Professor of History at the University of Alabama.
"A readable and concise study of the events leading to the military
and political disaster in April 1961...This book should be must
reading for our two presidential candidates and their staffs."--St.
Petersburg Times
"Jones has crafted an exceedingly impressive history of this tragic
event that should stand as the definitive treatment for years to
come. Essential for all history collections."--Library Journal
(starred review)
"Jones, University Research Professor of History at UA and the
author of Mutiny on the Amistad, tells this story not in a single
page but in nearly hypnotic detail. He has researched the events
with great care and thoroughness, using now-declassified records
from the CIA, Senate committee hearings, and a host of other
sources."--Tuscaloosa News
"A taut account of a dismal passage of the Cold War....With
remarkable efficiency, Jones... examines all aspects of the
debacle....May become the preferred single-source reference to an
episode whose foreign policy and military implications continue to
reverberate."--Kirkus Reviews
"Howard Jones's The Bay of Pigs broke new ground both with
documentation and interpretation. In doing so, he also painted a
broader Cold War brush in showed the foreign relations legacy of
both the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Cold War Times
Magazine
"A concise and highly informative account of the planning and
execution of this foreign policy debacle....An excellent revisiting
of a tragic episode of the cold war."--Booklist
"Extensively researched and cogently reasoned, Jones's update of
this Cold War turning point for the Pivotal Moments in American
History series is a cautionary account of a disastrous foray into
regime change."--Publishers Weekly
"The Bay of Pigs, based on deep research, is a hard-hitting history
of the Cold War mentality that led American leaders not only to
back a badly flawed invasion but also to plot all manner of
attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro and others in his
circle."--James T. Patterson, author of Restless Giant: The United
States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore
"An unsparing portrait of an epic disaster, a tale of overreach,
incompetence, hubris and self-delusion, of every level of American
government at its worst. The Bay of Pigs had far-reaching
consequences, and from Howard Jones' account it becomes clear
why."--James Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin
"This is the definitive history of John F. Kennedy's greatest
policy calamity. More thoroughly researched than any previous work
on the subject, it is also succinct, nuanced, and exquisitely
balanced in its treatment of the president and the CIA."--Brian
Latell, author of After Fidel: Raul Castro and the Future of Cuba's
Revolution, and Senior Research Associate, Cuba Studies, University
of Miami
"Howard Jones has written a page-turner, beginning the moment he
describes Fidel Castro's planes roaring out of Havana and heading
toward the helpless Cuban exile brigade on Red Beach. He also shows
conclusively how the invasion-poorly planned, driven by
self-deception and inertia-solidified Castro's rule, destroyed
U.S.-Cuban relations, and reinforced the American government's
paranoia that any criticism of its foreign policy constituted a
threat to nation
security."--Stephen Schwab, retired CIA official currently teaching
at the University of Alabama
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