The United States and Cuba: A Study in International Relations

[good sound copy, some foxing/spotting to top and bottom edges of text block, previous owner's notation about where he obtained the book written in ink on front endpaper (see notes); the jacket is a bit of a mess, with various chips and tears, but is substantially complete]. "Why should so small and lovely an island cause such agitation" [When was this book written, again] "Here is a land by nature peaceful and fertile. At times it has been rich, with a foreign trade of over a billion dollars; more often it has been poor, with a trade of less than one hundred million. At time there have been gayety and contentment; more often there have been bitterness and desperate rebellion. Whichever way the wind turned, the United States was affected. No other country has been so continuously a concern of our Department of State." The author was the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba from November 1929 to April 1933, resigning just a few months before the coup d'etat that toppled the government of President Gerardo Machado y Morales. This copy of the book, according to a handwritten note on the front endpaper from its previous owner, one Col. Carroll E.B. Peeke, had been presented to him by the author in Washington, D.C. in 1934, "when I was Diplomatic Editor at the Washington Times." Following his ambassadorship, Mr. Guggenheim kept busy (yes, he was one of those Guggenheims) -- playing a major role in the development (and funding) of aviation and aeronautics, being a big-time thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, founding the newspaper Newsday, and serving as the president of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation. (They were his parents, you see.)

Product Info

Publisher: The Macmillan Company

Year: 1934

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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