During the 1960s, for the first time in centuries dozens of countries in Africa and Asia were free of colonial rule following the collapse of European empires during the Cold War. In his book, Robert B. Rakove's focuses on the relationship between two United Stats presidents and the nations of the Non Aligned Movement. Newly independent, the Non Aligned movement was caught between two ways of life: the Soviet model of command economy and the United States model of free-market capitalism. Rakove uses the stark contrast between Presidents John F. Kennedy's idealistic and Lyndon B. Johnson's pragmatic approach in appealing to the nonaligned world. Broadening the lens of American foreign relations, Rakove's book us unique in that it attempts to
