Randall Bennett Woods

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

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Produktbeschreibung

J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and among the first American critics of the Vietnam War. His criticism was particularly galling to Lyndon Johnson. An abridgement of Randall Woods's original prize-winning biography of Fulbright, this edition presents the full story of Fulbright's role as one of the leading congressional opponents of the Vietnam War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780521588003
• ISBN-10: 0521588006
• Artikelnr.: 21343390

Inhaltsangabe

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.