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Lincoln Gordon - Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
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Lincoln Gordon - Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy and Peace
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After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon
emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe.
During his long career, Gordon worked as an aide to National
Security Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman's
administration; for President John F. Kennedy as an author of the
Alliance for Progress and as an adviser on Latin American policy;
and for President Lyndon B. Johnson as assistant secretary of
state. Gordon also served as the United States ambassador to Brazil
under both Kennedy and Johnson. Outside the political sphere, he
devoted his considerable talents to academia as a professor at
Harvard University, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution, and
as president at Johns Hopkins University. In this impressive
biography, Bruce L. R. Smith examines Gordon's substantial
contributions to U.S. mobilization during the Second World War,
Europe's postwar economic recovery, the security framework for the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and U.S. policy in Latin
America. He also highlights the vital efforts of the advisers who
helped Gordon plan NATO's force expansion and implement America's
dominant foreign policy favoring free trade, free markets, and free
political institutions. Smith, who worked with Gordon at the
Brookings Institution, explores the statesman-scholar's virtues as
well as his flaws, and his study is strengthened by insights drawn
from his personal connection to his subject. In many ways, Gordon's
life and career embodied Cold War America and the way in which the
nation's institutions evolved to manage the twentieth century's
vast changes. Smith adeptly shows how this "wise man" personified
both America's postwar optimism and as its dawning realization of
its own fallibility during the Vietnam era.
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