Randall Bennett Woods

Fulbright

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

J. William Fulbright is the second most successful Oxford-educated politician to come from Arkansas. Author of the Fulbright-Connally resolution, which committed the United States to participating in the United Nations, and creator of the exchange program that bears his name, Fulbright was the longest-serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Both an intellectual and an internationalist, Fulbright had great influence over the course of American foreign relations in the 1960s and 1970s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 734
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1255g
• ISBN-13: 9780521482622
• ISBN-10: 0521482623
• Artikelnr.: 21474334

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Of poets, Prussians and plutocrats
2. Oxford
3. First family of Fayetteville
4. A political education
5. Taking the stage
6. The conscience of a conservative internationalist
7. European federation and trickle-down integration
8. 'Washington's cleanup man'
9. The enemy within
10. The junior senator from Arkansas
11. Massive retaliation, Suez, and the struggle for an alternative foreign policy
12. Little Rock and foreign aid
13. A changing of the guard
14. Camelot and Cuba
15. 'Freedom's Judas-goat'
16. A creative tension
17. Of myths and realities
18. Avoiding Armageddon
19. Escalation
20. Texas hyperbole
21. The hearings
22. The politics of dissent
23. Widening the credibility gap
24. The war in Washington
25. 'The price of empire'
26. Denouement
27. The politics of a Dixie dove
28. Nixon and Kissinger
29. Of arms and men
30. Struggle for the vital center
31. Sparta or Athens?
32. Cambodia
33. A foreign affairs alternative
34. Privileges and immunities
35. Divided minds
36. The invisible wars
37. Dancing with Henry
38. Broken fences
39. Life after office
40. Conclusion
Index.