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

by Adam Clymer

Book Overview

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"