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Crackpot Realists and Other Heroes: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American Diplomatic Elite |
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| Authors: | DOUGLAS LITTLE |
| Institution: | DOUGLAS LITTLE received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, where he worked with Walter LaFeber. An associate professor at Clark University, he is the author of Malevolent Neutrality: The United States, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War (1985). Little presently is at work on a study of the American response to Arab nationalism since 1945. Ilis essay, "Ncw Frontier on the Nile: Kennedy, Nasser, and Arab Kxionalism," reccntly appeared in the Journal of American History. |
| Abstract: | Review in this Article Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made — Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy . New York T. Michael Ruddy. The Cautious Diplomat: Charles E. Bohlen and the Soviet Union, 1929–1969 . Kent, OH Robert Paul Browder and Thomas G. Smith. Independent: A Biography of Lewis Douglas . New York Forrest C. Pogue. George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945–1959 . New York |
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