Alexander Etkind

Roads Not Taken (eBook, ePUB)

An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt was a member of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919), the first Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1933-1936) and France (1936-1940), and the Special Representative of the President of the United States in the Middle East (1940). He played a huge role in the establishment of US-USSR relations on the eve of World War II. Based on Bullitt's unpublished papers and diplomatic documents from the Russian archives, this new biography presents Bullitt as a truly cosmopolitan American, one of the first politicians of the global era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822983200
• Artikelnr.: 53236759

Autorenporträt

Alexander Etkind is professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He previously taught at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, and at Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of King's College and professor of Russian literature and cultural history. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied and Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience.