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Bezig met laden... The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold Wardoor Luke A. Nichter
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The first biography of a man who was at the center of American foreign policy for a generation For three decades, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as adviser to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, and West Germany. He hailed from a distinguished American family with a record of public service that began in the Washington administration. The experience of World War II ?when Lodge became the first sitting senator since the 1860s to resign his seat for military service ?dramatically transformed him from isolationist to internationalist, and the Cold War tested his faith in democracy and its ability to project its system of values abroad. Lodge was among the last of his kind: the well-heeled Eastern Establishment Republicans who put duty over partisanship and saw themselves as the hereditary captains of the American state. Using previously unexamined material, historian Luke A. Nichter recounts, for the first time, Lodge ?s extraordinary and consequential life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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World renowned and respected in his time as a journalist, congressman, senator, WW2 war veteran, U.N. Ambassador, U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (twice) and ambassador-at-large in many venues, his life and career is a hallmark of compassionate, moderate conservatism. Few of his more famous contemporaries could sport a resume like his. This biography is a testament to the American ideals of public service. Luke Nichter has gone to excruciating lengths in research and detail to write an exemplary biography of a man little known or understood. For any student of 20th century history, this book is a must read.
The entire book is plethora of known and new information about this extraordinary American patriot and his service spanning 8 decades, the most intriguing chapters deal with Vietnam; more importantly is that newly found, declassified and transcribed material from the Kennedy White House shows that U.S. involvement in Vietnam from the very beginning became fixated & fixed after the cartoonish, deadly coup that toppled SVN president Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, 1963. It has long been believed that President John F. Kennedy was fully involved and informed of the coup plotting from early that year. However, apologists and protectors of his legacy have steadfastly repudiated it. The information within this book shows that without a doubt, JFK knew well in advance about the coup plotting, actively stayed informed and tacitly approved of it. It is a stunning blow to his pristine thousand days; this is not revisionist history, it reads like ‘real time’ history correcting a record mired in the fog of war.
Cabot Lodge and others took a lot of detrimental and unnecessary blame for the Diem coup and what transpired in Vietnam over the next decade once Lyndon Johnson became president but the information revealed herein shows that blame could squarely be placed in the Oval Office. The buck stopped there.
That being said, this entire biography is a microcosm of the American realpolitik in its finest form. No politician or diplomat is perfect… but the last Brahmin was certainly closer than most.