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Airlift to America : how Barack Obama, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African students changed their world and ours
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- Creator
- Tom Shachtman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- x, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780312570750, 0312570759
- OCLC
- ocn316019603
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-259) and index.
- Cold War and moral crusades -- American labor and the rise of Tom Mboya -- Alliance formed -- The Harambee kids -- The college experience -- Crisis time : Kennedy vs. Nixon on the airlift -- The airlift and the presidential election of 1960 -- Care and feeding -- A logical evolution