The United States and Cuba: A Study in International Relations

New York: The Macmillan Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, some foxing/spotting to top and bottom edges of text block, previous owner's notation about where he obtained the book written in ink on front endpaper (see notes); the jacket is a bit of a mess, with various chips and tears, but is substantially complete]. "Why should so small and lovely an island cause such agitation?" [When was this book written, again?] "Here is a land by nature peaceful and fertile. At times it has been rich, with a foreign trade of over a billion dollars; more often it has been poor, with a trade of less than one hundred million. At time there have been gayety and contentment; more often there have been bitterness and desperate rebellion. Whichever way the wind turned, the United States was affected. No other country has been so continuously a concern of our Department of State." The author was the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba from November 1929 to April 1933, resigning just a few months before the coup d'etat that toppled the government of President Gerardo Machado y Morales. This copy of the book, according to a handwritten note on the front endpaper from its previous owner, one Col. Carroll E.B. Peeke, had been presented to him by the author in Washington, D.C. in 1934, "when I was Diplomatic Editor at the Washington Times." Following his ambassadorship, Mr. Guggenheim kept busy (yes, he was one of those Guggenheims) -- playing a major role in the development (and funding) of aviation and aeronautics, being a big-time thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, founding the newspaper Newsday, and serving as the president of the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation. (They were his parents, you see.) .