Concept and controversy : sixty years of taking ideas to market / by W.W. Rostow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rostow, W. W. (Walt Whitman), 1916-2003.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

United States.

World politics--20th century.

World politics.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-.

International relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Summary:

A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking memoir, he takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call "the future." In discussing how he and others have worked to meet these challenges, Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.

Contents:

1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 1

2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944? 27

3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989: The Hinge Was Poland 59

4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off 96

5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure 137

6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion 188

7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle 254

8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized 262

9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution 279

10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? 295

11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control 317

12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century 332

13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread 346

14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History 354

Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 359

Appendix B. The Question of East Germany Immediately after Stalin's Death 365

Appendix C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech 369

Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2001 377

9.1. The Ups and Downs of China's Growth, 1953-1993 286

9.2. China's Opposing Forces 288

10.1. Percentage Shares of Manufactures in Total Exports of ASEAN and Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs), 1960-1979 312

2.1. German Single-Engine Fighter Aircraft Acceptances, 1943 40

2.2. German Production and Imports of Total Finished Oil Products and Aircraft Fuel, January 1944-March 1945 56

3.1. Rates of Growth in Soviet Industry, 1955-1972 92

3.2. USSR: Average Annual Growth Rate of Industrial Output, 1961-1986 93

7.1. Increase in School Population: South Korea, 1935-1964 256

7.2. South Korea's Status in the Stages of Growth, 1980-1997 260

8.1. Some Economic Indicators for the United States, 1957-1965 276

9.1. Some Demographic Facts about India and China 293

9.2. Sources Quoted by Mao 417

10.1. Patterns of Growth Performance in ASEAN (per Capita GDP and Real GDP Growth) 310

10.2. Percentage of Growth of Manufacturing Production in ASEAN (at Constant Prices) 311

10.3. Indicators of Education Levels: ASEAN, 1960, Mid-1970s, and 1981 314

10.4. Health-Related Indicators: ASEAN, 1960 and 1977 315

11.1. Cyclical Behavior of Black and Other Civilian Unemployment Relative to White, 1948-November 2000 323

11.2. Composition of Texas Population by Race, 1990-2030 325

11.3. U.S. Population by Race/Ancestry, 2000-2020 424

12.1. Total Fertility Rate by Level of Income: 1965-2000 335

12.2. Total Fertility Rate for Sample Transitional Countries, 1970, 1992, and 2000 336

12.3. Death Rate, Excluding India and China, 1970 and 1992 337.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-426) and index.

ISBN:

029277124X

OCLC:

50643738