Screen LibraryThe last Brahmin : Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the making of the Cold War /
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did--in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under presidents of both parties. For three...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did--in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under presidents of both parties. For three decades, he was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as advisor to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and as ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, West Germany, and the Vatican. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-493) and index. |
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9780300217803 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0300217803 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | E748 |
| CLC: | K837.127 |
| Call Number: | K837.127/L822N |
| Contents: | The making of a Brahmin -- Early life -- First political steps -- U.S. Senate -- The making of an internationalist -- World War II -- Return to the Senate -- Drafting Ike -- A Lodge-Kennedy rematch -- Part III. The Eisenhower years -- The UN (1953-1957) -- The UN (1957-1960) -- The 1960 campaign -- The Kennedy years -- Saigon -- Diem -- A coup -- The Johnson years -- Lodge for President -- LBJ and Vietnam -- West Germany and 1968 -- The Nixon and Ford years -- The Paris peace talks -- Envoy to the Vatican -- Retirement and epilogue. |