Author: Thomas W. Zeiler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842026864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the career of Rusk, the author reflects on the uses and abuses of predominant power in diplomacy, and interprets events and issues.
Dean Rusk
Author: Thomas W. Zeiler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842026864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the career of Rusk, the author reflects on the uses and abuses of predominant power in diplomacy, and interprets events and issues.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842026864
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the career of Rusk, the author reflects on the uses and abuses of predominant power in diplomacy, and interprets events and issues.
As I Saw it
Author: Dean Rusk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850432388
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Brought up on a farm in Georgia, Rusk won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, entered the state department after World War II, became President of the Rockefeller Foundation and was Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson. His autobiography provides a personal perspective on 20th-century America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781850432388
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Brought up on a farm in Georgia, Rusk won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, entered the state department after World War II, became President of the Rockefeller Foundation and was Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson. His autobiography provides a personal perspective on 20th-century America.
Waging Peace & War
Author: Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743241786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780743241786
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Dean Acheson
Author: Douglas Brinkley
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300060751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Acheson was President Harry Truman's secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democratic Party activist in Eisenhower's presidency and an advisor in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon eras. This charts his post-secretarial career.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300060751
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Acheson was President Harry Truman's secretary of state, the American father of NATO and active in US foreign policy after World War II. He was also a Democratic Party activist in Eisenhower's presidency and an advisor in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon eras. This charts his post-secretarial career.
The Wise Men
Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684837714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684837714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
The Vietnam Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Kremlinologist
Author: Jenny Thompson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries McGeorge Bundy and George C. Marshall--who considered Thompson one of the most crucial actors in the Cold War and the "unsung hero" of the Cuban Missile Crisis--he has not been the subject of a major biography until now. Thompson's daughters Jenny Thompson Vukacic and Sherry Thompson set out to document their father's life as thoroughly as possible. Relying on primary sources and interviews, they received generous assistance from archivists, historians, and colleagues of their father. They also acquired documents and information from Russian archives, including the KGB archives. As family, they had unprecedented access to his FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, family archives, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents. Their original research brings new material to light including important information on the U-2, Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert operations machinery. The book refutes historical misinterpretations of events in the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421424096
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top diplomats, Llewellyn Thompson. His life went from the wilds of the American West to the inner sanctums of the White House and the Kremlin. As the ambassador to Moscow, he became an important advisor to presidents and a key participant in major twentieth-century events, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. Yet, unlike his contemporaries McGeorge Bundy and George C. Marshall--who considered Thompson one of the most crucial actors in the Cold War and the "unsung hero" of the Cuban Missile Crisis--he has not been the subject of a major biography until now. Thompson's daughters Jenny Thompson Vukacic and Sherry Thompson set out to document their father's life as thoroughly as possible. Relying on primary sources and interviews, they received generous assistance from archivists, historians, and colleagues of their father. They also acquired documents and information from Russian archives, including the KGB archives. As family, they had unprecedented access to his FBI dossier, State Department personnel files, family archives, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents. Their original research brings new material to light including important information on the U-2, Kennan's containment policy, and Thompson's role in US covert operations machinery. The book refutes historical misinterpretations of events in the Berlin Crisis, the Austrian State Treaty, and the Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.
Kennedy's Wars: Liberal Anti Communism; 2 Beyond Massive Retaliation; 3 The Third World Alternative; 4 Policies and People. Section 2 Berlin and Nuclear Statagy: 5 The New Strategy; 6 To Vienna and Back; 7 The Berlin Anomaly; 8 A Contest of Resolve; 9 The Wall; 10 Tests and Tension; 11 Flexible Resp
Author: Lawrence Freedman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195152433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In 'Kennedy's Wars' noted historian Lawrence Freedman draws on the best of Cold War scholarship and newly released government documents to illuminate Kennedy's approach to war and his efforts for peace.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195152433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In 'Kennedy's Wars' noted historian Lawrence Freedman draws on the best of Cold War scholarship and newly released government documents to illuminate Kennedy's approach to war and his efforts for peace.
Global Lawmakers
Author: Susan Block-Lieb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107187583
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Lawmaking by international organizations has enormous influence over world trade and national economies. This book explores who makes that law and how.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107187583
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Lawmaking by international organizations has enormous influence over world trade and national economies. This book explores who makes that law and how.
Rap on Trial
Author: Erik Nielson
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973413
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album Shell Shocked. Mac was sentenced to thirty years in prison, where he remains. And his case is just one of many nationwide. Over the last three decades, as rap became increasingly popular, prosecutors saw an opportunity: they could present the sometimes violent, crime-laden lyrics of amateur rappers as confessions to crimes, threats of violence, evidence of gang affiliation, or revelations of criminal motive—and judges and juries would go along with it. Detectives have reopened cold cases on account of rap lyrics and videos alone, and prosecutors have secured convictions by presenting such lyrics and videos of rappers as autobiography. Now, an alarming number of aspiring rappers are imprisoned. No other form of creative expression is treated this way in the courts. Rap on Trial places this disturbing practice in the context of hip hop history and exposes what's at stake. It's a gripping, timely exploration at the crossroads of contemporary hip hop and mass incarceration.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973413
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"? Few would seriously subscribe to this notion of justice. Yet in 2001, a rapper named Mac whose music had gained national recognition was convicted of manslaughter after the prosecutor quoted liberally from his album Shell Shocked. Mac was sentenced to thirty years in prison, where he remains. And his case is just one of many nationwide. Over the last three decades, as rap became increasingly popular, prosecutors saw an opportunity: they could present the sometimes violent, crime-laden lyrics of amateur rappers as confessions to crimes, threats of violence, evidence of gang affiliation, or revelations of criminal motive—and judges and juries would go along with it. Detectives have reopened cold cases on account of rap lyrics and videos alone, and prosecutors have secured convictions by presenting such lyrics and videos of rappers as autobiography. Now, an alarming number of aspiring rappers are imprisoned. No other form of creative expression is treated this way in the courts. Rap on Trial places this disturbing practice in the context of hip hop history and exposes what's at stake. It's a gripping, timely exploration at the crossroads of contemporary hip hop and mass incarceration.