James (Daniel) Papers, 1953-1969

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Summary

Title:
James (Daniel) Papers,
Dates:
1953-1969
Creators:
Daniel James
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], James (Daniel) Papers, Mss69, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

The Daniel James Collection contains James' correspondence, notes and drafts (1953-1969), including most of his "Dateline Latin America" columns and an unpublished work titled "Communism in Mexico." The collection also contains information files on Latin America and individual Latin American nations (1953-1969) made up of clippings, pamphlets and other similar materials, many of them in Spanish. The bulk of these files is devoted to Cuba and to Mexico.

Biographical / historical:

Free-lance American journalist, Daniel James (b. 1914), covered Latin America during the Cold War years. His writings reflect two themes: 1) that the region had become a primary target for Soviet aggression against interests of the United States; and, 2) that American policies had failed to reflect the importance of the region to the United States. The author of hundreds of columns, articles and at least four books on these topics, including: "Red design for the Americas: Guatemala prelude" (1954), James first went to Latin America in 1953. He described Communist activity in Guatemala and in British Guiana in articles published in that year. James continued to publish articles reflecting his favorite themes in "Harper's," "The Saturday Evening Post," and the "London Observer." Later, he prepared a study of U.S. business activities in Mexico for the United States Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico (1956). From 1955 through 1967 Daniel James was a syndicated columnist for the Hearst Newspapers and SPADEA, publishing his views under the title: "Dateline Latin America." During the 1960s he published: "Cuba: the first Soviet satellite in the Americas" (1961); "Mexico and the Americas" (1963); and, "Che Guevara; A biography" (1969), the last written with the aid of diaries found when their author was killed while trying to start a Communist revolution in Bolivia (1967). Subsequently, James was for four years a tourism director in Mexico City (1974-1978). After 1987 he operated the Mexico-United States Institute in Washington, D.C.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:
54 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Holt Atherton staff; rev. by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: December 1998.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], James (Daniel) Papers, Mss69, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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