As I saw it : a Secretary of State's memoirs

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As I saw it : a Secretary of State's memoirs

by Dean Rusk

I.B. Tauris, 1991, c1990

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-559) and index

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Brought up on a farm in Georgia, Rusk won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, entered the state department after World War II, became President of the Rockefeller Foundation and was Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson. His autobiography provides a personal perspective on 20th-century America.

目次

  • Part 1 The early years: the Rusks of Cherokee County
  • an Atlanta boyhood
  • the "Poor Man's Princeton"
  • a southern Yank at Oxford
  • Mills College. Part 2 World War II and postwar years: World War II in the China-Burma-India theatre
  • War's end - the Abe Lincoln brigade
  • United Nations affairs
  • crisis in the Far East - the Korean war
  • "The Best Job in America". Part 3 The Kennedy years: the first hundred days
  • showdown over Berlin
  • the Cuban missile crisis
  • nuclear strategy, arms control and the test ban
  • managing the alliance
  • Africa and the Congo
  • China policy
  • death of a president. Part 4 The Johnson years: LBJ takes over
  • arms control under Johnson
  • building a better East-West relationship
  • crisis in the Dominican Republic
  • the six-day war
  • the "Pueblo" affair
  • the Third World and foreign aid
  • the United Nations. Part 5 Vietnam: roots of the American commitment, America goes to war
  • the frustrations of negotiations
  • Tet, policy review, Paris peace talks
  • a Vietnam retrospective. Part 6 Making foreign policy: advising the president
  • administering Foggy Bottom
  • congressional relations
  • intelligence and counterintelligence
  • press relations and the media
  • civil rights, human rights, and U.S. foreign policy. Part 7 The Georgia years: return to Georgia
  • final thoughts - developments in Eastern Europe.

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