Introduction: Rebuilding bridges
Eisenhower : patience and forbearance
Kennedy : the secret search for accommodation
Johnson : Castro reaches out
Nixon and Ford : Kissinger's Caribbean d'tente
Carter : close, but no cigar
Reagan and Bush : diplomatic necessity
Clinton : from calibrated response to parallel positive steps
George W. Bush : turning back the clock
Obama : a new beginning?
Intimate adversaries, possible friends.
Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana by William M. LeoGrande. ISBN 9781469617633. Published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.