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Chargement... Fulbright: A Biographypar Randall Bennett Woods
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 2814 Fulbright: A biography, by Randall Bennett Woods (read 30 Dec 1995) Fulbright was born 9 April 1905 at Sumner, Mo., was elected to the House in 1942, and to the Senate in 1944, and was defeated for a sixth Senate term in 1974. He died 9 Feb 1995. This book is rather slanted in his favor, though not entirely uncritical, and not well researched--it relies on secondary sources a lot (when telling of things said in the Senate it may cite a newspaper story rather than the Congressional Record!). I found it an intriguing story, covering all those momentous things which happened from 1942 to 1975. Fulbright was wrong at times, and he was right at times when I was wrong. But he did have courage and brains. The book is a good review of those momentous events--the Cold War, Vietnam--but one can be glad his advice was not always followed. For instance, in the Cuban missile crisis his advice might have resulted in nuclear war! ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
J. William Fulbright was the second most successful Oxford-educated politician to come from Arkansas. Author of the Fulbright-Connally resolution that committed the United States to participating in the U.N., and creator of the exchange program that bears his name, Fulbright was the longest serving chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This volume describes the family dynamic, educational process, and environments--Arkansas, Oxford, Washington, D.C.--which produced this remarkable man. It delves into his complex attitude toward race and details Fulbright's role in the civil rights movement. The narrative includes the major international events of the Cold War era--the Suez Crisis, the U-2 incident, the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis, Vietnam, the ABM controversies, the Arab-Israeli conflict--and Fulbright's role in them. Woods explains Fulbright's shift from a champion of executive power in foreign affairs to a defender of congressional prerogatives. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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