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Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
Adam Clymer
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Description for Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
Hardcover. Considered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. This work argues, that the Panama Canal no longer divides Panama. But the fissures it opened 30 years ago have widened; they divide the United States. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 567.
Considered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Adam Clymer shows how the decision to give up this revered monument of the ""American century"" stirred emotions already rubbed raw by the loss of the Vietnam War and shaped American politics for years.Jimmy Carter made the Canal his first foreign policy priority and won the battle to ratify the Panama Canal treaties. But, Clymer reveals, the larger war was lost. The issue gave Ronald Reagan a ... Read more
Considered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Adam Clymer shows how the decision to give up this revered monument of the ""American century"" stirred emotions already rubbed raw by the loss of the Vietnam War and shaped American politics for years.Jimmy Carter made the Canal his first foreign policy priority and won the battle to ratify the Panama Canal treaties. But, Clymer reveals, the larger war was lost. The issue gave Ronald Reagan a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
574g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700615827
SKU
V9780700615827
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About Adam Clymer
Former chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times, Adam Clymer is author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography. His writing has also appeared in the Nation, the New Republic, the Progressive, Washington Monthly, and elsewhere.
Reviews for Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right
A fascinating political whodunit about the place of the Panama Canal in the conservative campaign to sink the ship of congressional liberals. Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation ""Long acknowledged to be a top-flight journalist, Clymer turns out to be a thoughtful and probing historian as well. Above all, he is a gifted storyteller, whose colorful cast includes dictators ... Read more