TY - JOUR
AU - Nash, Philip
AB - 908 The Journal of American History December 2013 States to combat the efforts of the Soviets, who used from his important contribution regarding the Jim Crow as proof that American ideologies of de- role of sports within American strategies of cul- mocracy did not mean liberty for all? tural diplomacy during the Dwight D. Eisen- Thomas grounds his work in the most evident hower and John F. Kennedy years. answer to such questions: the desegregation of pro- Amy Bass fessional baseball, which has been well documented College of New Rochelle by historians from Jules Tygiel to Adrian Burgos New Rochelle, New York Jr. As a first step, baseball’sintegration allowedAf- doi: 10.1093/jahist/jat365 rican American athletes to serve as ambassadors for democracy, demonstrating that the United States offered the best to all of its citizens. Athletes The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, were found to be especially useful in this position Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November. because their games—whether running, baseball, By Sergo Mikoyan, Ed. by Svetlana Savranskaya. or, especially, basketball—did not need transla- (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xxiv, tion: sports worked as an international language 589 pp. $65.00.) of sorts, easily manipulated by the State Depart- 
TI - The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jat472
DA - 2013-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-soviet-cuban-missile-crisis-castro-mikoyan-kennedy-khrushchev-and-orTSng6eLP
SP - 908
EP - 909
VL - 100
IS - 3
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