Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right

by Adam Clymer

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Considered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Adam Clymer shows how the decision to give up this revered monument of the "American century" stirred emotions already rubbed raw by the loss of the Vietnam War and shaped American politics for years.

Jimmy Carter made the Canal his first...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0700615822

ISBN13:9780700615827

Release Date:March 2008

Publisher:University Press of Kansas

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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