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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969929803321

Autore

Van Atta Dale

Titolo

With honor : Melvin Laird in war, peace, and politics / / Dale Van Atta ; foreword by Gerald R. Ford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008

ISBN

1-282-42427-0

9786612424274

0-299-22683-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (660 p.)

Disciplina

355.6092

B

Soggetti

Cabinet officers - United States

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States

Legislators - United States

Legislators - Wisconsin

United States Politics and government 1963-1969

United States Politics and government 1969-1974

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An abridged edition [of The Laird legacy], entitled With honor : Melvin Laird in war, peace and politics (ISBN 978-0-299-22680-0 [i.e. 978-0-299-226808]), is published by the University of Wisconsin"--The Laird legacy, t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 603-614) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword by Gerald R. Ford""; ""Acknowledgment""; ""Prologue""; ""1. The Man from Marshfield""; ""2. Guns and Butter""; ""3. A House Divided""; ""4. Laird Also Rises""; ""5. Cloud Riders""; ""6. Into the Quagmire""; ""7. Fight Now, Pay Later""; ""8. The Resurrection of Richard Nixon""; ""9. Looking for an Exit""; ""10. Off the Menu""; ""11. Going Public""; ""12. Dueling Machiavellis""; ""13. Ending the Draft""; ""14. Objections Overruled""; ""15. Black September""; ""16. Friends in High Places""; ""17. "Management by Walking Around"""; ""18. Minority Report""

""19. The Secret War""""20. The Hawks Have Flown""; ""21. Withdrawal Symptoms""; ""22. Easter Offensive""; ""23. No Time for Quitters""; ""24. Watergate""; ""25. Picking a President""; ""26. Kitchen Cabinet""; ""27. A



Second Career""; ""28. War and Peace and War""; ""29. Another Vietnam?""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Republican Melvin Laird agreed to serve as Richard Nixon s secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public but as he later said, Nixon couldn t find anybody else who wanted the damn job. For the next four years, Laird deftly navigated the morass of the war he had inherited. Lampooned as a missile head, but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he doggedly pursued his program of Vietnamization, initiating the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and gradually ceding combat responsibilities to South Vietnam. In fighting to bring the troops home faster, pressing for more humane treatment of POWs, and helping to end the draft, Laird employed a powerful blend of disarming Midwestern candor and Washington, D.C. savvy, as he sought a high moral road bent on Nixon s oft-stated (and politically instrumental) goal of peace with honor. The first book ever to focus on Laird s legacy, this authorized biography reveals his central and often unrecognized role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War and the challenges, ethical and political, that confronted him along the way. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Laird, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and numerous others, author Dale Van Atta offers a sympathetic portrait of a man striving for open government in an atmosphere fraught with secrecy. Van Atta illuminates the inner workings of high politics: Laird s behind-the-scenes sparring with Kissinger over policy, his decisions to ignore Nixon s wilder directives, his formative impact on arms control and health care, his key role in the selection of Ford for vice president, his frustration with the country s abandonment of Vietnamization, and, in later years, his unheeded warning to Donald Rumsfeld that it s a helluva lot easier to get into a war than to get out of one. "



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967358803321

Autore

Garrod Raphaële

Titolo

Changing hearts : performing Jesuit emotions between Europe, Asia, and The Americas / / edited by Yasmin Haskell, Raphaele Garrod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018

ISBN

90-04-38519-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Jesuit Studies - Modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, , 2214-3289 ; ; volume 15

Disciplina

271/.53

Soggetti

Emotions - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Editorial Note -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Yasmin Haskell and Raphaële Garrod -- Senecan Catharsis in Nicolas Caussin’s Felicitas (1620): A Case Study in Jesuit Reconfiguration of Affects / Raphaële Garrod -- Performing the Passions: Pierre Brumoy’s De motibus animi between Didactic and Dramatic Poetry / Yasmin Haskell -- Passions on the Jesuit Stage: Systems of Affects in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Theater Poetics / Nienke Tjoelker -- “In what storms of blood from Christ’s flock is Japan swimming?”: Gratia Hosokawa and the Performative Representation of Japanese Martyrdom in Mulier fortis (1698) / Makoto Harris Takao -- The Angel and Ameri(c)a: Performing the “New World” in José Manuel Peramás’s De invento Novo Orbe inductoque illuc Christi sacrificio (1777) / Maya Feile Tomes -- Si potes exemplo moveri, non propiore potes: Emotional Reciprocity in Laurent Le Brun’s Nova Gallia / Peter O’Brien -- “I began to teach […]”: Emotion and Performance in Isaac Jogues’s Letter to Father Jean Filleau / John Gallucci -- Performing Emotions at the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Southern Low Countries / Ralph Dekoninck , Maarten Delbeke , Annick Delfosse and and Koen Vermeir -- Jesuits and Music in Guam and the Marianas, 1668–1769 / David R.M. Irving -- Jesuit Visual Preaching and the Stirring of the Emotions in Iberian Popular Missions / Juan Luis González García -- “Such fragile jewels”: The Emotional Role of Chinese Porcelain in Early



Modern Jesuit Missions / Susan Broomhall -- “Don Mancio, Nephew of the King of Hizen”: Echoes of the Japanese Tenshō Mission to Europe in 1585 in the Portrait of Sukemasu Itô by Domenico Tintoretto / Paola Di Rico and Marino Viganò -- Back Matter -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to “change hearts”—that is, convert or reform—both in Europe and in the overseas missions. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art, and architecture; it inflamed young men with holy desire to die for their faith in foreign lands; its missionaries initiated dialogue with and ‘accommodated’ to non-European cultural and emotional regimes. The early modern Jesuits conducted, in all senses of the word, much of the emotional energy of their times. As such, they provide a compelling focus for research into the links between rhetoric and emotion, performance and devotion, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.