Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Batista Paves the Way for Castro, 1952-1958
3 The United States Recognizes Castro and His Revolution
4 Cuba Seem from the American Embassy, February 1959
5 First Contacts with Castro
6 Castro Visits the United States, April 1959
7 Land Reform at Home and Intervention Abroad
8 July and August of 1959
9 A New Foreign Minister and an Interview with Castro
10 An Uncertain Interlude
11 The Arrest of Matos and the "Bombing of Havana"
12 What Course for the United States?
13 The American Commitment to Nonintervention Reaffirmed
14 The Castro-Mikoyan Deal, February 1960
15 Nonintervention Abandoned, March 1960
16 American Sanctions: Oil and Sugar
17 Revolutionary Progress and American Frustration
18 The End of My Mission and Electoral Politics at Home, October 1960
19 President Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs, and the Missile Crisis
20 Cuba and the United States, 1970 and Beyond
21 Future Economic Relations Between Cuba and the United States
22 Conclusion
Notes on the Cuban Background
Notes
Principal Books Consulted
Index