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Titolo |
American statesmen [[electronic resource] ] : secretaries of state from John Jay to Colin Powell / / edited by Edward S. Mihalkanin |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024 |
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ISBN |
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979-84-00-61233-6 |
1-280-63756-0 |
9786610637560 |
0-313-06336-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (608 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cabinet officers - United States |
Statesmen - United States |
United States Foreign relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Dean Acheson; John Quincy Adams; Madeleine Albright; Robert Bacon; James Baker III; Thomas F. Bayard; Jeremiah S. Black; James G. Blaine; William Jennings Bryan; James Buchanan; James F. Byrnes; John C. Calhoun; Lewis Cass; Warren Christopher; Henry Clay; John M. Clayton; Bainbridge Colby; William R. Day; John Foster Dulles; Lawrence S. Eagleburger; William M. Evarts; Edward Everett; Hamilton Fish; John Forsyth; John W. Foster; Frederick T. Frelinghuysen; Walter Q. Gresham; Alexander M. Haig, Jr.; John Hay; Christian Herter |
Charles Evans HughesCordell Hull; John Jay; Thomas Jefferson; Frank B. Kellogg; Henry Kissinger; Philander C. Knox; Robert Lansing; Hugh S. LegareĢ; Edward Livingston; James Madison; William L. Marcy; George C. Marshall; John Marshall; Louis McLane; James Monroe; Edmund S. Muskie; Richard Olney; Timothy Pickering; Colin Powell; Edmund Randolph; William P. Rogers; Elihu Root; Dean Rusk; William H. Seward; John Sherman; George P. Shultz; Robert Smith; Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; |
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Henry L. Stimson; Abel P. Upshur; Martin Van Buren; Cyrus Vance; Elihu B. Washburne; Daniel Webster |
List of ContributorsQuick Reference Chronology of Secretaries of State; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Secretary of State is in charge of defining and implementing U.S. foreign policy. While that role has weakened some over the past 50 years, a mere roll call of illustrious past Secretaries of State invokes the position's importance. Thomas Jefferson, Henry Kissinger, John Quincy Adams, William Jennings Bryan, Henry Clay, James Madison, George C. Marshall, George Schultz, and Daniel Webster are just a few of the Secretaries profiled within these 65 entries. Arranged A-to-Z, each essay is multifaceted, offering information personal, professional, and political. The majority of each piece dea |
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