Can I read Edward Lansdale's Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) on EtoBox?

Edward Lansdale's Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) by Lansdale, Edward Geary;Nashel, Jonathan;United States. Central Intelligence Agency is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Edward Lansdale's Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) about?

The man widely believed to have been the model for Alden Pyle in Graham Greene's The Quiet American , Edward G. Lansdale (1908–1987) was a Cold War celebrity. A former advertising executive turned undercover CIA agent, he was credited during the 1950s with almost single-handedly preventing a communist takeover of the Philippines and with helping to install Ngo Dinh Diem as president of the American-backed government of South Vietnam. Adding to his notoriety, during the Kennedy administration Lansdale was put in charge of Operation Mongoose, the covert plot to overthrow the government of Cuba's Fidel Castro by assassination or other means. In this book, Jonathan Nashel reexamines Lansdale's role as an agent of American Cold War foreign policy and takes into account both his actual activities and the myths that grew to surround him. In contrast to previous portraits, which tend to depict Lansdale either as the incarnation of U.S. imperialist ambitions or as a farsighted patriot dedicated to the spread of democracy abroad, Nashel offers a more complex and nuanced interpretation. At times we see Lansdale as the arrogant "ugly American," full of confidence that he has every right to ma

Who reads Edward Lansdale's Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)?

Author

Lansdale, Edward Geary;Nashel, Jonathan;United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558494640

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Historical Fiction, Memoir