Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by David L. Gardinerix Acknowledgmentsxv Introductionxix PART ONE: STRUGGLE 1 Warriors of the Fortress of Faith 3 2 The Tennis Champion of Darjeeling11 3 The Dharma Beatniks and the Island of the Dead21 4 All Tsampa Eaters Must Stand Together33 5 The Dalai Lama's Great Escape49 6 Eisenhower Expands the Covert War61 7 Hearts and Minds77 8 America's Secret Bay of Pigs91 PART TWO: RESILIENCE 9 Wheels Within Wheels107 10 Cultural Revolutions123 11 Nixon Embraces China141 12 Counterculture to the Rescue159 PART THREE: HOPE 13 The Dalai Lama Finds a Middle Way177 14 The 1990s: The Tibetan Movement Goes Global189 15 The Tibetan National Uprising of 2008203 16 The Last Dalai Lama?229 17 What Is to Be Done to Free Tibet?245 Appendix NSC Directive 5412/2262 About Sources267 Bibliography269 Index273

About the Author

John B. Roberts II is a consulting producer for The McLaughlin Group and has been featured on NBC's Dateline and in The New York Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today.

Reviews

-A treasure trove of information about Tibet's ordeal....[an] informative take on an important aspect of Asian political history.- --Kirkus Reviews

-Former Reagan strategist Roberts and journalist Elizabeth Roberts draw on unprecedented access to the Dalai Lama's circle and U.S. government insiders to recount Tibet's resistance movement and its unlikely allies....this book offers a clear overview of the key issues and conveys why Tibet's situation is more urgent that ever.- --Publishers Weekly

-While this book has been expertly and technically crafted, at heart it is a passionate act of advocacy that had become, in the short months since its release, a part of the campaign committed to freeing Tibet. Read the book and, if you can, join the struggle.- --Tom Blankley, syndicated columnist

-Written in an engaging, narrative style, Freeing Tibet is the story of a culture that has been struggling to survive for half a century... Freeing Tibet is not the chronicle of a hopeless cause--au contraire. It tells how an engaged global community could liberate the Tibetans.- --Shambhala Sun

"A treasure trove of information about Tibet's ordeal....[an] informative take on an important aspect of Asian political history." --Kirkus Reviews

"Former Reagan strategist Roberts and journalist Elizabeth Roberts draw on unprecedented access to the Dalai Lama's circle and U.S. government insiders to recount Tibet's resistance movement and its unlikely allies....this book offers a clear overview of the key issues and conveys why Tibet's situation is more urgent that ever." --Publishers Weekly

"While this book has been expertly and technically crafted, at heart it is a passionate act of advocacy that had become, in the short months since its release, a part of the campaign committed to freeing Tibet. Read the book and, if you can, join the struggle." --Tom Blankley, syndicated columnist

"Written in an engaging, narrative style, Freeing Tibet is the story of a culture that has been struggling to survive for half a century... Freeing Tibet is not the chronicle of a hopeless cause--au contraire. It tells how an engaged global community could liberate the Tibetans." --Shambhala Sun