The Political History of American Food Aid: An Uneasy BenevolenceAmerican food aid to foreigners long has been the most visible and most popular means of providing humanitarian aid to millions of hungry people confronted by war, terrorism and natural cataclysms and the resulting threat often the reality of famine and death. The book investigates the little known, not well understood and often highly contentious political processes which have converted American agricultural production into tools of U. S. government