Devil and John Foster Dulles

Hoopes, Townsend

Deutsch

Prize-winning historians Hoopes and Brinkley tell the engrossing story of the American role in the formation of the United Nations and provide an important historical perspective on the organization`s fifty-year history of peacekeeping efforts. They show how President Franklin D. Roosevelt, disenchanted with the failed League of Nations and determined to break the cycle of ever more destructive wars, worked with American and foreign leaders and became the driving force behind the creation of the U. N.

FDR and the Creation of the U.N.

Brinkley, Professor Douglas

Yale University Press

In recent years the United Nations has become more active in―and more generally respected for―its peacekeeping efforts than at any other period in its fifty-year history. During the same period, the United States has been engaged in a debate about the place of the U.N. in the conduct of its foreign policy. This book, the first account of the American role in creating the United Nations, tells an engrossing story and also provides a useful historical perspective on the controversy. Prize-winning historians Townsend Hoopes and Douglas Brinkley explain how the idea of the United Nations was conceived, debated, and revised, first within the U.S. government and then by negotiation with its major allies in World War II. The experience of the war generated increasing support for the new organization throughout American society, and the U.N. Charter was finally endorsed by the community of nations in 1945. The story largely belongs to President Franklin Roosevelt, who was determined to form an organization that would break the vicious cycle of ever more destructive wars (in contrast to the failed League of Nations), and who therefore assigned collective responsibility for keeping the peace to the five leading U.N. powers―the major wartime Allies. Hoopes and Brinkley focus on Roosevelt but also present vivid portraits of others who played significant roles in bringing the U.N. into being: these include Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Dean Acheson, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, Edward Stettinius, Arthur Vandenberg, Thomas Dewey, William Fulbright, and Walter Lippmann. In an epilogue, the authors discuss the checkered history of the United Nations and consider its future prospects.

History

Brinkley, Douglas

Americas

A full scale biography of one of our most powerful Secretaries of State and a masterful study of the diplomacy of the Eisenhower years.

The Devil and John Foster Dulles

Atlantic Monthly Press

“Far and away the most illuminating account we have of the people and policies that led the United States into the Vietnam catastrophe. . . .A significant contribution to the history of our times.” ―Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. How the war in Vietnam came to represent the outer limits of feasible American intervention, how the working of the democratic process finally forced President Johnson to abandon a policy of escalation, and why the particular events of March 1968 signaled the end of an era constitute the subject matter of this prize-winning, firsthand account. As under secretary of the Air Force from October 1967 to February 1969, Townsend Hoopes had an insider’s perspective on events. His book is both compelling memoir and searching historical inquiry. For this new paperback edition, Mr. Hoopes has written a supplemental chapter interpreting the final events of 1973-75 and assessing with masterful clarity the whole period of American involvement in Vietnam, from 1945 to 1975.

The Limits of Intervention: How Vietnam Policy was Made--and Reversed--During the Johnson Administration

W.W.Norton&Company

The Limits of Intervention

Asia

Longman Publishing Group

The Limits of Intervention: An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam was Reversed

David McKay Company, Inc.

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