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Sto caricando le informazioni... See You Later Alligator (1985)di William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The year is 1961, the setting Havana. CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is sent there on a mission only to find himself in the eye of an international political hurricane. President Kennedy, who has selected Oakes to meet with the Che Guevara inside Castro's Cuba, has contrived a daring plan?dubbed Operation Alligator?that will hopefully bring about an era of detente in East-West relations. The communists, however, have another agenda: a double-cross that has terrifying consequences. Soon Oakes is trapped in Cuba, and the heat is on. Warming the climate greatly is the sultry beauty Catalina. The weather forecast: betrayal, power politics, and sudden death. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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The novel takes place during John Kennedy's presidency, specifically in the months prior to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The Bay of Pigs debacle has already taken place, and the Soviet Union is secretly transporting nuclear weapons to Cuba. The protagonist Blackford Oakes, a CIA-trained field operative, has been chosen by Kennedy to try to ease tensions with Cuba. Che Guevara, with whom he negotiates, is concerned that Fidel Castro is allowing Cuba to fall into the orbit of the USSR, and sees a chance to avoid that possibility. He suggests that in return for a US promise not to invade Cuba and a normalization of trade, that Cuba would not establish a military alliance with the Soviet Union and would reconsider its policy of aiding revolutions throughout Latin America. Castro, in contrast, sees the negotiations as a way to delay an expected invasion from the US, in order to allow the Soviet missiles to be installed and armed.
The cat- and- mouse game between Oakes and Guevara provide most of the novel's interest, along with the divergent perspectives of Guevara and Castro. Kennedy himself is portrayed occasionally in the novel, in ways not very complimentary; here Buckley's political perspective shines through. In contrast, Guevara is painted as a complex, interesting character, although of course one entirely untrustworthy and ultimately, murderous. The novel's plot includes a love interest, a harrowing escape, betrayal, courage, and retribution.
Buckley's afterword specifies the sources he used in construction his portraits of Castro and Che; for the latter, he relied in part on an account by Richard Goodwin [a staff member in JFK's administration] in the New Yorker. As for the fictional negotiations between Oakes and Che, they are well- based in fact, i.e., discussion between Che and Goodwin in Uruguay in 1961. When news of the Che - Goodwin discussion leaked, Goldwater called on JFK to fire Goodwin, and Kennedy subsequently demoted him. Years later, Goodwin reflected that any sort of deal with Castro would have been politically impossible.
Accounts of the discussion between Che and Goodwin, along with political commentary, are available on the internet :
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/154814
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/05/opinion/president-kennedy-s-plan-for-peace-wi...
https://midnightwriternews.com/che-guevara-richard-goodwin-and-the-almost-peace-... ( )