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Author:
Vestal, Theodore M.
Title:
The lion of Judah in the new world : Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the shaping of Americans' attitudes toward Africa / Theodore M. Vestal.
Publisher:
Praeger,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xv, 231 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Haile Selassie--I,--Emperor of Ethiopia,--1892-1975--Influence.
Haile Selassie--I,--Emperor of Ethiopia,--1892-1975--Travel--United States.
Visits of state--United States--History--20th century.
Africa--Foreign public opinion, American.
Ethiopia--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Ethiopia.
Public opinion--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A lion in the streets -- From sly fox to king of kings -- Mussolini and the legacy of Adwa -- Liberation under the shadow of Britain -- The treasure of Kagnew -- A very royal first state visit, 1954 -- The spring of the lion -- The rituals of U.S. and Ethiopian diplomacy -- 1960, the annus horribilis of Haile Selassie -- The lion of Judah at Camelot : the second state visit, 1963 -- He shall have a noble memory : the Kennedy funeral -- The winter of discontent : the third state visit, 1967 -- Gotterdammerung : the Nixon visits, 1969, 1970, and 1973 -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
0313386218 (ebook)
9780313386213 (ebook)
031338620X (hard copy : alk. paper)
9780313386206 (hard copy : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)662405899
LCCN:
2010047141
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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