Chester Bowles

Author : Howard B. Schaffer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674113909
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chester Bowles written by Howard B. Schaffer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Chester Bowles is also the story of America finding its place in a changing world--remarkably relevant to our own post-cold war era. Former ambassador Schaffer draws on a wealth of documents and interviews with some of the nation's top foreign policy makers in the post-WWII years. 22 halftones.

Author : Chester Bowles
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520339010
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Challenge to America written by Chester Bowles and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.

Author : Chester Bowles
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promises to Keep written by Chester Bowles and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1971 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chester Bowles' public career spans twenty-nine years in an exceptionally wide range of activities. He has served six presidents, held state and federal offices, in wartime and in peace, at home and abroad. He has long been one of America's outstanding liberal spokesmen. Professor Henry Steele Commanger has cited Mr. Bowles as the best example of a "new kind of public servant," a man "who considers himself not exclusively the spokesman of a particular interest, or economy, or political system, but of the interests of man." Yet Promises to Keep is more than the record of one man's public career. It is also the story of the currents of change and of the opposition to change that have characterized America since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Bowles' readiness to challenge deeply rooted special interests, to advocate unpopular positions, and to speak out for what he believes in has brought him into frequent conflict with some fo the highest officials in our government. His memoirs tell the story of these conflicts in full. As OPA Administrator during World War II, Mr. Bowles and the remarkable organization which he created successfully "held the line" against inflation, battling lobbyists, other government officials and members of Congress in the process. Later, as Governor of Connecticut, he introduced far-reaching legislation to reorganize the archaic state government and to bring it closer to the people. Although many of his "radical" proposals were blocked during his term of office, most of them were subsequently enacted into law. As President Kennedy's Under Secretary of State, Mr. Bowles was largely responsible for bringing into diplomatic service a "new breed" of ambassador. But his efforts to introduce fresh thinking in the tradition-bound State Department ran into heavy weather. Mr. Bowles was the key figure in the New Frontier's first major reshuffling of high-level officials. As Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. worte in A Thousand Days, "Bowles [was] the hapless victim of the conditions which he diagnosed better than anyone else." He has also been one of the very few men who from the beginning sensed the danger of our growing involvement in Indochina and offered alternative policies. Keenly aware of the attitudes and aspirations of the people of Asia, he here expresses views sharply critical of U.S. foreign policy and charges that America has failed to understand and act on the forces shaping the non-Western world. These memoirs, written with characteristic personal warmth, evoke three decades of crucial importance. Yet, as Mr. Bowles writes, "the cycle of success and failure which I shall describe should be considered not as nostalgia for old battles won or lost, but as the first skirmishes of the struggle which lies ahead."

Author : Greg Mullins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Affairs written by Greg Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the literature produced by Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Alfred Chester while they were American expatriates in the Moroccan city of Tangier, Mullins (Evergreen State College) reflects on how their writings represented the interaction between sexual politics and colonialism. Applying concepts from queer theory and colonial theory, he looks at a range of issues swirling around the city where cultures, sexualities, and politics met with differing levels of power. Among these are the Western experience of Morroco as a destination of homosexual tourism, sexual tourism as situated in contexts of colonial relationships and financial transactions, the equation of colonial relationships with gendered spheres of power, and the accommodations of Moroccan society to practices it ostensibly condemned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Chester Bowles
Publisher : Bombay : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A View from New Delhi written by Chester Bowles and published by Bombay : Allied Publishers. This book was released on 1969 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chester Bowles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambassador's Report. [An Account of the Author's Impressions and Activities as U.S. Ambassador to India and Nepal, 1951-52.]. written by Chester Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Merrill
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807819203
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bread and the Ballot written by Dennis Merrill and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recently declassified government documents, Merrill examines U.S. foreign economic policy toward India from its independence to President Kennedy's assassination. He considers the politics, ideology, and functioning of the large economic assistance effort in India, and also provides insights into the failures of U.S. economic strategies in the Third World during the Cold War. According to Merrill, rapid growth of aid to nonaligned India began during the Eisenhower Administration, which declared the policy of the United States to convince "people in the less developed areas that there is a way of life by which they can have bread and the ballot." The volume also includes Indian views on relevant economic and political issues. ISBN 0-8078-1920-4: $39.95.

Author : Howard B. Schaffer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807862223
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellsworth Bunker written by Howard B. Schaffer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of postwar America's foremost diplomats from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs. Named ambassador to Argentina by Harry Truman in 1951, Bunker went on to serve six more presidents as ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and Vietnam and on special negotiating missions. A widely recognized "hawk," Bunker helped shape U.S. policy in Vietnam during his six-year Saigon posting. Using letters Bunker wrote to his wife as well as recently declassified messages he exchanged with Henry Kissinger, Schaffer examines how Bunker promoted the war effort and how he regarded his mission. After leaving Saigon on his seventy-ninth birthday, Bunker next became a key figure in the treaty negotiations, spanning three presidencies, that radically changed the operation and defense of the Panama Canal. Highlighting Bunker's views on the craft of diplomacy, Schaffer paints a complex picture of a man who devoted three decades to international affairs and sheds new light on post-World War II American diplomacy. This book is part of the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, co-sponsored by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in Arlington, Virginia, and Diplomatic & Consular Officers, Retired, Inc., of Washington, D.C.

Author : Sherill Tippins
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544987365
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book February House written by Sherill Tippins and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “irresistible” account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn (The Washington Post Book World). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year February House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers—and America’s best-known burlesque performer—in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn. It was a fevered yearlong party, fueled by the appetites of youth and a shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before the country entered World War II. In spite of the sheer intensity of life at 7 Middagh, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers’s two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born, bibulously, in Brooklyn. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her Middagh Street bedroom. W. H. Auden—who, along with Benjamin Britten, was being excoriated back in England for absenting himself from the war—presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while, he was composing some of the most important work of his career. Enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, this tale of daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century comes from the acclaimed author of Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel. “Brimming with information . . . The personalities she depicts [are] indelibly drawn.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . Not to mention funny and raunchy.” —The Seattle Times

Author : Kai Bird
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501169165
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Truth written by Kai Bird and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It is a portrait of fiercely patriotic, brilliant and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not believe could be won. Bird draws on seven years of research, nearly one hundred interviews, and scores of still-classified top secret documents in a masterful reevaluation of America's actions throughout the Cold War and Vietnam.