J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780521588003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str.

Randall Bennett Woods

Opis

J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also the most prominent, and the most effective, of the first American critics of the Vietnam War. Fulbright's criticism was particularly galling and damning to Lyndon Johnson because Fulbright was a principled internationalist who could not be dismissed as an ideologue. Fulbright used hearings by the Foreign Relations Committee as a forum in which to advance his powerful critique of the war. This book is an abridgement of Randall Woods' prize-winning biography of J. William Fulbright. This edition presents the full story of Fulbright's role as one of the leading congressional opponents of the Vietnam War.

Recenzje

'In this compelling biography, Randall Woods has vividly captured the contradictions of a complex man and the political drama of his three tumultuous decades in the US Senate.' Ronald Steel, University of Southern California and author of Walter Lippman and the American Century

Spis treści

1. Taking the stage; 2. Cuba and Camelot; 3. 'Freedom's Judas-Coat'; 4. Of myths and realities; 5. Avoiding Armageddon; 6. Escalation; 7. Texas hyperbole; 8. The hearings; 9. The politics of dissent; 10. Widening the credibility gap; 11. The price of Empire; 12. Denouement; 13. Nixon and Kissinger; 14. Of arms and men; 15. Sparta or Athens?; 16. Cambodia; 17. A foreign affairs alternative; 18. Privileges and immunities; 19. The invisible wars; 20. Conclusion.