Airlift to America : How Barack Obama, Sr. , John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours

From the Prologue:

“As with the story of [Barack] Obama’s rise, the [1959-1963] airlifts were an expression of a quintessentially American trait, an aspect of what America had so consistently offered to the peoples of the rest of the world: an open, helping hand, and the experience  and understanding of what it means to be free, to be educated, and to conceive personal dreams that have a substantial chance of being realized.  

This book tells that story, recounting the creation, execution, and achievements of those airlifts, including their important effects on the presidential elections of 1960 and 2008, as well as on the integration of American campuses, on the way that foreign students were recruited for the U.S. and treated once here, and on the health and survival of the independent nations of East Africa in their most formative years.”  

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