Chester bowles: new dealer in the cold war (Record no. 64720)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 8120309006
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Classification number 327.2092 SCH
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Personal name Schaffer, Howard B.
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Title Chester bowles: new dealer in the cold war
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Prentice - Hall of India
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1994
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Extent 387 p.
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Summary, etc. When Harry Truman named him ambassador to India in 1951, Chester Bowles was already a prominent figure in American public life-a onetime advertising mogul, wartime administrator. governor of Connecticut-and yet his past hardly presaged the turn his path would take in Asia. Over the next two decades, at home and abroad, Bowles would become one of the leading liberal lights in American foreign policy. a New Dealer often at odds with the stiffening cold war conservatism of his time. His biography is also the story of America finding its place in a changing world, a story of remarkable relevance to our own post-cold war era.<br/>Howard Schaffer, a former ambassador and seasoned Foreign Service officer, worked closely with Bowles in India and Washington and is able to offer a colorful firsthand por trayal of the man, as well as an insider's view of American foreign policy in the making. Bowles's indefatigable energy, inspired ideal ism, and humanitarian instincts leave their mark on these pages-as do his stubbornness, his cultural blinders, and his failure to master the game of bureaucratic politics. We see him in his sometimes exhilarating and ultimately frustrating struggle to influence the leaders and policy makers of his day-as twice ambassador to Indía, Democratic party foreign policy spokesman, congressman from Connecticut, foreign policy adviser to John F. Kennedy, under secretary to Dean Rusk at the State Department, and President Kennedy's special adviser on Africa, Asia, and Latin America.<br/><br/>Drawing on a wealth of documents and inter views with some of the nation's top foreign policy makers in the post-World War II years. Schaffer shows us Bowles in his tireless attempt to advance an alternative approach to international relations during those decades, one defined less in military than in economic terms, focused less on the struggle for power with the Soviet Union in Europe than on the ontest with China over the fate of Third World countries. "Only the historians can determine who was right and who was wrong." Dean Rusk once said of Bowles's ideas and convictions and today history itself is writing the last word.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Ambassadors United States - Biography
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