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Beschreibung
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro! Trudeau would famously shout at the [...] this fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life three days of Canadian politics played out on the international stage. In a revealing look at both leaders personalities and political ideologies, Wright shows how these two towering figuresdespite their official positions as allies of rival empiresdeterminedlyrefused to exist merely as handmaidens to the United States and forged a long-lasting relationship."
On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro! Trudeau would famously shout at the [...] this fascinating portrait of an unusual relationship between two enigmatic world leaders, author and historian Robert Wright brings to life three days of Canadian politics played out on the international stage. In a revealing look at both leaders personalities and political ideologies, Wright shows how these two towering figuresdespite their official positions as allies of rival empiresdeterminedlyrefused to exist merely as handmaidens to the United States and forged a long-lasting relationship."
Über den Autor

Robert Wright, PhD, is professor of history at Trent University Durham in Oshawa, Ontario. He is the author of the national bestsellers Three Nights in Havana and The Night Canada Stood Still, both of which won the Canadian Authors Association’s Lela Common Award for Canadian History, and Our Man in Tehran, which was made into an award-winning documentary film. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780002158008
ISBN-10: 0002158000
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wright, Robert A
Hersteller: Harper Perennial
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Robert A Wright
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.02.2008
Gewicht: 0,525 kg
Artikel-ID: 117258578