03810nam 2200577 a 450 991081887100332120200520144314.00-8262-6571-5(CKB)1000000000481751(EBL)3570948(SSID)ssj0000226709(PQKBManifestationID)11188091(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000226709(PQKBWorkID)10263405(PQKB)11722871(MiAaPQ)EBC3570948(Au-PeEL)EBL3570948(CaPaEBR)ebr10203774(OCoLC)932325791(EXLCZ)99100000000048175120070129d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPresidents, diplomats, and other mortals essays honoring Robert H. Ferrell /edited by J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc20071 online resource (363 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8262-1747-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction Individuals, Narratives, and Diplomatic History""; ""1. Howard Jones Toward a More Perfect Union Lincoln and the Death of Slavery""; ""2. Eugene P. Trani and Donald E. Davis A Tale of Two Kennans American-Russian Relations in the Twentieth Century""; ""3. Richard H. Bradford Our Man in Managua Lawrence Dennis and the 1926 Nicaraguan Crisis""; ""4. William Kamman A Friendly Problem Washington's Assessment of Anastasio Somoza García""""5. J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson Blundering on the Brink, 1941 FDR and the 203-202 Vote Reconsidered""""6. Ross Gregory America and Saudi Arabia, Act I The Conference of Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud in February 1945""; ""7. William B. Pickett Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair A Forty-Six-Year Retrospective""; ""8. Charles M. Dobbs Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and the China Question""; ""9. Nick Cullather Scenes of Disaster Johnson, Nixon, and the Dramatic Uses of Famine""; ""10. Miriam Joyce Washington and Doha The Beginnings, 1971-1974""""11. Stephen Vaughn Cinema and National Defense Another Look at Ronald Reagan and Hollywood""""12. Terry H. Anderson Revisionism George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Origins of the Iraq War""; ""13. James Goode Crisis without End The United States and Iran from Truman to Bush""; ""14. Thomas H. Buckley Clinton's Wilsonian Military Interventions A Critique""; ""15. Arnold A. Offner Harry S. Truman, George W. Bush, and the Perils of Regime Change""; ""16. J. Garry Clifford The Young Bob Ferrell From Yale to Indiana""; ""17. Lawrence Kaplan Robert H. Ferrell An Appreciation""""Robert H. Ferrell's Ph.D. Students""""About the Contributors""; ""Index"""Examining the role of the United States in the international arena from the 1860s to the present, these essays in honor of Robert H. Ferrell consider presidents from Lincoln to Bush, as well as the success or failure of diplomatic efforts in Russia, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere"--Provided by publisher.United StatesForeign relationsUnited StatesDiplomatic history327.73Clifford J. Garry(John Garry),1942-1598418Wilson Theodore A.1940-763595Ferrell Robert H484865MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818871003321Presidents, diplomats, and other mortals3920659UNINA