From the Congo to Capitol Hill - Weissman, Stephen R
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"Memoir, spanning two continents and two life-stages, of an American child of the 1960s' intimate engagement with the Congo. Caught up in a racially fraught crisis at an American White missionary-led university in the Congo, a young American professor is publicly fired. Several years later, he becomes a key staff aide for a congressional committee battling, amidst Cold War anxieties, to distance the U.S. from the "friendly" Congo dictator's corruption and human rights abuses. This rare insider's account provides revealing first hand insights into some of today's burning issues: the dynamics of…mehr

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"Memoir, spanning two continents and two life-stages, of an American child of the 1960s' intimate engagement with the Congo. Caught up in a racially fraught crisis at an American White missionary-led university in the Congo, a young American professor is publicly fired. Several years later, he becomes a key staff aide for a congressional committee battling, amidst Cold War anxieties, to distance the U.S. from the "friendly" Congo dictator's corruption and human rights abuses. This rare insider's account provides revealing first hand insights into some of today's burning issues: the dynamics of racial conflict, the paranoia and narcissism of authoritarian regimes and the hidden dysfunctions of the U.S. Congress, State Department and pundit press. At the same time, it is a tale of sometimes painful personal and political growth"--
Autorenporträt
Stephen R. Weissman is the author of American Foreign Policy in the Congo 1960-19 (Cornell University Press, 1974) and A Culture of Deference: Congress's Failure of Leadership in Foreign Policy (Basic Books, 1995, 1996). A political scientist, Weissman has taught and researched at Fordham University, New Jersey City University, Stanford University, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Howard University. He has published widely on American foreign policy in various regions of the the world, including the roles of Congress, the CIA and international mediation, as well as on the breakdown of the American campaign finance regulation system.