H-Diplo Review Essay 552
20 March 2024
Gregory D. Cleva, John F. Kennedy’s 1957 Algeria Speech: The Politics of Anticolonialism in the Cold War Era. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. ISBN 978-1666901306. (Hardcover, $110.00).
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Editor: Diane Labrosse | Commissioning Editor: Daniel R. Hart | Production Editor: Christopher Ball
Review by Robert Rakove, Stanford University
“There is a mountain of writing about [John F.] Kennedy and the Kennedys,” observes the historian Anders Stephanson, “the mastering of which would require several scholarly lives.”[1] Six decades after Kennedy