The Last Gentleman: Thomas Hughes and the End of the American Century

ISBN-13: 9780815738909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 390 str.

Bruce L. R. Smith

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• 1. Beginner Boy
• 2. Teacher’s Pet
• 3. Student Federalist
• 4. With Bowles and Humphrey
• 5. Bowles in Congress
• 6. The 1960 Presidential Election
• 7. The New Frontier
• 8. Intelligence and Covert Operations
• 9. The Cuban Missile Crisis
• 10. Diplomacy
• 11. The Overthrow of Diem
• 12. The Gulf of Tonkin Crisis
• 13. The 1964 Vice Presidency
• 14. The Humphrey-Hughes Memo
• 15. Point of No Return
• 16. Speaking Out
• 17. The Most Turbulent Year
• 18. London
• 19. Carnegie: The House That Hughes Built
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index