W. W. Rostow

Concept and Controversy

Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market

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Produktbeschreibung

A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking memoir, he takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call "the future." The issues that Rostow discusses are these: The use of air power in Europe in the 1940s Working toward a united Europe during the Cold War The death of Joseph Stalin and early attempts to end the Cold War Eisenhower's Open Skies policy The debate over foreign aid in the 1950s The economic revival of Korea Efforts to control inflation in the 1960s Waiting for democracy in China The Vietnam War and Southeast Asian policy U.S. urban problems in disadvantaged neighborhoods The challenges posed by declining population in the twenty-first century In discussing how he and others have worked to meet these challenges, Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 782g
• ISBN-13: 9780292726192
• ISBN-10: 0292726198
• Artikelnr.: 31969272

Autorenporträt

W. W. Rostow was Rex G. Baker Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Austin. His sixty-year career has also included service in the U.S. State Department, and he served as special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938
* 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have
Won the War in Europe in 1944?
* 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1999: The Hinge Was
Poland
* 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off
* 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure
* 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats
Triumph after a Fashion
* 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle
* 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation,
1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized
* 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution
* 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have
Been Cut?
* 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control
* 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem
of the Twenty-first Century
* 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread
* 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first
Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History
* Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement:
February 1946
* Appendix B
* Appendix C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech
* Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic
Achievement Analysis, 1994-2002
* Notes
* Index