Louis A. Perez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Perez' book is the most scholarly yet written about this important
eight-year period in Cuban-American relations. More than that, it
presents one of the clearest analyses of how the Platt Amendment
both dominated and distorted the Cuban political system.--
"Hispanic American Historical Review"
The author packs a lot of information into this rather specialized
study. He deftly clarifies the competition between insurgent Cuban
Liberals and their Conservative opponents, and he demonstrates how
both groups sought to channel U.S. fears of Cuban disorder to their
own advantage. Equally well does Perez uncover the often murky
economic interests of American corporations and officials. Indeed,
his section about Norman H. Davis, who served in both high Treasury
and State Department posts until 1921 while enriching himself from
more than thirty economic projects in Cuba, is fascinating. . . .
this is first-rate historical analysis.-- "History: Reviews of New
Books"
This excellent study of American policy toward Cuba deals with the
changes in that policy, particularly the interpretation of the
Platt Amendment, from 1913 to 1921.-- "Journal of Political and
Military Sociology"
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