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The dissent papers : the voices of diplomats in the Cold War and beyond /

"Beginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.S. diplomats to American foreign policy in the latter half of the twentieth century. During America's reign as a dominant world power, U.S. presidents and senio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gurman, Hannah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The pen as sword: George Kennan and the politics of authorship in the early Cold War
  • Learn to write well: the China hands and the communist-ification of diplomatic reporting
  • Revising the Vietnam balance sheet: the rhetorical logic of escalation versus George Ball's writerly logic of diplomacy
  • The other plumbers unit: the dissent channel of the U.S. State Department
  • Conclusion the life after: from internal dissenter to public prophet.