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At Home Abroad - A Memoir of the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, 1953-1973 (Paperback)
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At Home Abroad - A Memoir of the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, 1953-1973 (Paperback)
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In 1953, as part of the Eisenhower/Dulles response to Senator
Joseph McCarthy's charges of security risks in its staff, John
Bresnan was fired from the U.S. foreign service. This turned out to
be a blessing is disguise as he was quickly hired by the Ford
Foundation in its New York headquarters, and in 1961 was appointed
Assistant Representative to Indonesia. Four years later, Bresnan
was given another assignment: close the office. What follows is a
personal recollection of the philanthropic work by the Ford
Foundation during a critical period of development for the country.
It details the Ford Foundation's successes and failures as well as
his relationships with a wide array of characters: from John D.
Rockefeller III to Soedjatmoko, from McGeorge Bundy to the Sultan
of Yogyakarta. Based on extensive research in the archives of the
Ford Foundation as well as personal files, At Home Abroad is an
engaging insight into the inner workings of one of the largest
philanthropic organizations and their mission in the developing
world. This book should be required reading for anyone interested
in the role of American philanthropy overseas. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN BRESNAN was Assistant Representative of the Ford Foundation in
Indonesia from 1961 to 1965, Representative there from 1969 to
1973, and Head of the Office for Asia and the Pacific at Ford's
headquarters in New York from 1973 to 1982. Since then, he has been
a Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
at Columbia University, where he has written and edited books on
Indonesia, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia that were published
by Columbia University Press, Princeton University Press, and the
Council on Foreign Relations.
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