List Of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Beginnings; Chapter 2. Evolution Of A Disaster; Chapter 3 Fixing Blame; Chapter 4 Bobby Takes Charge; Chapter 5. Mongoose; Chapter 6 'Nutty Schemes'; Chapter 7. Mongoose Redux; Chapter 8. Perpetual Intrigue; Chapter 9. A New Beginning; Chapter 10. Accommodation Or Assassination; Chapter 11 'Let Cubans Be Cubans'; Chapter 12 Fading Fast; Chapter 13 A Last Hurrah; Chapter 14 LBJ Cashes Out; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About The Author
Don Bohning, a former Latin America editor for the Miami Herald, has won numerous journalism awards, including the James Nelson Goodsell Award for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean. He lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
"[An] engaging, disturbing, and important book . . . Given
Bohning's well-deserved reputation for balanced and accurate
reporting, his judgment conveys a wisdom from which current
policymakers could well benefit in many areas."
"Fascinating, well-documented . . . an admirable commitment to
accuracy and research . . . an absorbing account of clandestine
activities."
The execution and failure of the U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba at
the Bay of Pigs, the frequent nuttiness and occasional lethality of
CIA plots against the Castro regime, and the endlessly convoluted
politics of Cuban-exile Miami in the 1960s come alive in this
thorough, vastly informative, and admirably well-written account of
the passions and policies that marked U.S. policy toward Cuba from
1959 to 1965.
This book represents the capstone on Don Bohning s distinguished
career of reporting on Cuba and all of the Caribbean and Latin
America. His reportorial and analytical skills well known to
readers of the Miami Herald are in clear evidence within these
pages. This book sheds new light on an important chapter in U.S.
policy toward Cuba, which dramatically shaped the history of
Florida and of America during the Cold War.
THE CASTRO OBSESSION captures, in abundant detail, the complex
plotting and intrigue of covert operations against Cuba. Bohning
has catalogued the secret side of an amazing history that remains
relevant to this day.
"Forget everything else you might have read about Cuba and the
Kennedys: Mr. Bohning has done the seminal book on the subject,
drawing heavily on CIA document. . . ." --WASHINGTON TIMES
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