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Since 1959, discord and hostility have dominated the storyline of US-Cuban relationships. From John F. Kennedy's offering associated with an olive branch to Fidel Castro following the missile problems, to Henry Kissinger's top-secret search for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of any "new strategy", William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh reveal a 50-calendar year record of dialogue and negotiations, both wide open and furtive, indicating a course toward better relationships in the future. LeoGrande and Kornbluh have uncovered hundreds of formerly top secret US documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers. The writers describe how, despite the political clamor surrounding any hint of better relationships with Havana, serious negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through solution, back-channel diplomacy.