Tropical Zion : General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosua / Allen Wells.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Duke University Press Books.
American encounters/global interactions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Main Author: Wells, Allen, 1951-
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Series:Duke University Press Books.
American encounters/global interactions.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Jews > Dominican Republic > Sosúa > History.
Jews > Colonization > Dominican Republic > Sosúa.
Jewish refugees > Dominican Republic > Sosúa.
Sosúa (Dominican Republic) > Ethnic relations.
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, > 1891-1961.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945.
United States > Foreign relations > Dominican Republic.
Dominican Republic > Foreign relations > United States.
Dominican Republic Settlement Association, Inc.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xxxi, 447 pages : illustrations, map.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • "Our ethnic problem"
  • Think big
  • Jewish farmers
  • Converging interests
  • "The eyes of the world are on the Dominican Republic"
  • One good turn
  • Lives in the balance
  • Playing god
  • Growing pains
  • First impressions
  • Flawed vision
  • Containment
  • Trial and error
  • Middle age
  • The man who saved Sosua
  • A "splendid president"
  • Golden years
  • "The beginning of the end"
  • Ravages of aging.