Freeing Tibet : 50 years of struggle, resilience, and hope / / John B. Roberts II, Elizabeth A. Roberts.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 279 p., [16] p. of plates :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. Struggle
- Warriors of the fortress of faith
- The tennis champion of Darjeeling
- The dharma beatniks and the island of the dead
- All tsampa eaters must stand together
- The Dalai Lama's great escape
- Eisenhower expands the covert war
- Hearts and minds
- America's secret Bay of Pigs
- Part Two. Resilience
- Wheels within wheels
- Cultural revolutions
- Nixon embraces China
- Counterculture to the rescue
- Part Three. Hope
- The Dalai Lama finds a middle way
- The 1990s: the Tibetan movement goes global
- The Tibetan national uprising of 2008
- The last Dalai Lama?
- What is to be done to free Tibet?