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Acknowledgments First, I would like to thank my editor at Cornell University Press, Michael McGandy . Michael showed patience, professionalism, and enthusiasm throughout the publication process. I also thank Fredrik Logevall for his invaluable encouragement and engagement in my research; Raymond Craib for deepening my interest in Latin American history and for pushing me to seek a balance between “the view from the North” and local narratives south of the U.S. border; and Elizabeth Sanders, whose ability to move between the fields of U.S. foreign relations history and political science proved very useful throughout my research and writing. I am grateful to the anonymous readers of the manuscript at Cornell University Press, as well as the readers of related articles in Diplomatic History and Cold War History. I also thank the participants in panels I have served on over the past seven years at the annual conferences of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. I particularly thank the individuals who agreed to participate in oral history interviews for this book, notably F.A.“Tex”Harris, who, in addition to discussing his own experiences in the U.S. Foreign Service, offered invaluable assistance by sharing his vast list of contacts connected to the issue of human rights in U.S.Argentine relations. I also thank Patricia Derian and Roberta Cohen for generously allowing me to examine their personal papers. Additionally, I am grateful to the archivists at the John F. Kennedy Library, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald R. Ford Library, and the Ronald Reagan Library, as well as the National Archives in Washington, DC, along with the archivists at numerous universities, particularly Boston College, Dartmouth University, and the University of Texas at Austin. This research could not have been completed without generous financial support from Cornell University’s American Studies Program, Latin American Studies Program, Peace Studies Program, and the Society for the Humanities. I am grateful to the John F. Kennedy Library for providing an Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Research Fellowship, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library for offering a Moody Grant, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for providing a William Appleman Williams Junior Faculty Research Grant. I also thank Bucknell University for generous research funding. xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to acknowledge the editors of Diplomatic History for granting me permission to adapt portions of my article“Institutionalizing Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy: U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1976–1980” 35, no. 2 (2011): 351–377; the editors of Cold War History for permission to adapt sections of my article “Human Rights and the Cold War: The Campaign to Halt the Argentine ‘Dirty War’”12, no. 2 (2012): 345–365; and the editors of Diplomats at War: The American Experience (Republic of Letters Publishing, 2013) for permission to adapt portions of my chapter “Robert C. Hill and the Cold War in Latin America.” Finally, I would like to thank the members of my family for their lifelong encouragement and inspiration: my mother and father, who first kindled my love of history and instilled in me the imagination to conceive of lofty goals and the work ethic to achieve them; and my sister, whose sound advice, intellectual insight, and abiding friendship I value immensely. For her steadfast support I owe special thanks to Elisa Da Vià, to whom this book is dedicated. Enduring almost daily conversations on U.S.-Argentine relations, human rights, and Jimmy Carter, Elisa not only exhibited remarkable patience but has made me a better scholar in the process. ...

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