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The Caribbean crises of the Cool War are exposed as nothing you've seen prior in this riveting history of clashing ideologies, the surge of the politics of fear, the machinations of superpowers, and the brazen daring of the mavericks who needed them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, the Caribbean was in turmoil. The men in charge included, from Cuba, the charismatic Fidel Castro and his mysterious brother Ral; from Argentina, the ideologue Che Guevara; from the Dominican Republic, the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and from Haiti, Franois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement, and torture. Alex von Tunzelmann's great narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cool Battle to its end, each with a separate perspective for his tropical heaven, and each in search of power and adventure as america and the USSR acted out the world's tensions in their island nations. The superpowers thought they could use Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. Red Temperature is an intimate profile of the strong-willed men who, armed with little but words and ruthlessness, needed on the most effective nations on earth.
