Waiting for Uncle John: Cuba Must Be Ours (a Novel) - Goldsborough, James Oliver
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Waiting for Uncle John is an exciting and fast paced historical novel that tells the story of how a few regiments of soldiers, armed and supported by leading American politicians, set out to capture Cuba from Spain in 1851, the first of various attempts over two centuries to seize control of the island that has bedeviled American life back to Thomas Jefferson. A story of love, adventure and politics, Uncle John reflects the turbulence of the 1850s in America, the crucial years leading up to the Civil War, when the southern states were trying almost anything and everything to retain their way…mehr

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Waiting for Uncle John is an exciting and fast paced historical novel that tells the story of how a few regiments of soldiers, armed and supported by leading American politicians, set out to capture Cuba from Spain in 1851, the first of various attempts over two centuries to seize control of the island that has bedeviled American life back to Thomas Jefferson. A story of love, adventure and politics, Uncle John reflects the turbulence of the 1850s in America, the crucial years leading up to the Civil War, when the southern states were trying almost anything and everything to retain their way of life in a changing world, including trying to annex Cuba to form a slave owning state to add to the power of the South in Congress. Next stop in Manifest Destiny: Havana.
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James O. Goldsborough is an award-winning writer with a 40-year career in journalism, specializing in foreign affairs. The Misfortunes of Wealth: A Family Memoir, dealing with the disadvantages of inherited money, was published in September, 2008. Goldsborough spent 15 years in Europe as a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Toronto Star and Newsweek Magazine before returning to America to resume his newspaper career as an editor and columnist for the San Jose Mercury-News and San Diego Union-Tribune. Currently, he writes a column for the Voice of San Diego, an on-line daily newspaper in San Diego that has attracted national attention for news innovations. Goldsborough was named the Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations for the year 1973-1974, and served as senior associate and director of European projects at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1979-1983. While at Carnegie, he wrote Rebel Europe: How America Can Live with a Changing Continent (Macmillan, 1982). That book was acclaimed by Sen. J.W. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Goldsborough has written on foreign affairs for many leading magazines including Foreign Affairs, the New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, Fortune and the Columbia Journalism Review. In addition, he has written monographs for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and the Henry L. Stimson Center.