This book traces the course of the Pan American movement from the early days of nationhood to the present. The mystique that the Americas had a special mission separating them from the old world persisted from Bolivar's
Panama Congress of 1826 or before, with the United States assuming leadership of Pan Americanism in the 1880s and with its full flowering in the period of World War II, culminating with the establishment of the Organization of American States in 1948. The limited successes of the OAS and the Alliance for Progress and crucial problems of economic development, communism, and Yankeephobia are appraised. |
