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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464021903321

Autore

Smith Bruce L. R.

Titolo

Lincoln Gordon : architect of Cold War foreign policy / / Bruce L. R. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8131-6545-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (537 p.)

Collana

ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series

Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy and Peace

Disciplina

327.2092

Soggetti

Diplomats - United States

College teachers - United States

Ambassadors - Brazil

Ambassadors - United States

Cold War

Electronic books.

United States Officials and employees Biography

United States Foreign relations 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dorothy and Dad -- Secular humanism at Fieldston -- Harvard in three years -- An American at Oxford -- Allison -- Mobilizing for war -- Controlling the atom -- Birth of the Marshall Plan, 1947-1948 -- The Marshall Plan in action, 1949-1950 -- NATO: from treaty to alliance -- London: a respite -- Business school professor, 1955-1960 -- The Alliance for Progress and JFK advisor -- Ambassador to Brazil -- Assistant secretary -- Johns Hopkins President -- What now? -- Elder statesman -- Going gently.

Sommario/riassunto

After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. In this biography, Bruce L.R. Smith examines Gordon's substantial contributions to US mobilization during the Second World War, Europe's postwar economic recovery, the security framework for the North



Atlantic Treaty Organization, and US policy in Latin America.