The Most Dangerous Area in the World. John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. STEPHEN C. RABE: Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Abstract

This is an excellent, careful, and critical account of John F. Kennedy's Latin American policies, which Kennedy intended as a liberal, reform alternative to "Communist revolution." Although Rabe purposely omits a re-telling of Kennedy's unrelenting war against revolutionary Cuba, it haunts his narrative -- as it did every one of Kennedy's policies -- throughout.