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Atlantis lost : the American experience with De Gaulle, 1958-1969 / Sebastian Reyn.
Van Pelt Library E183.8.F8 R49 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reyn, Sebastian, 1967-
- Series:
- American studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- American Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--France.
- United States.
- International relations.
- France.
- United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
- United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
- Politics and government.
- Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970.
- France--Foreign relations--1958-1969.
- France--Foreign relations--United States.
- France--Politics and government--1958-1969.
- Physical Description:
- 547 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- Summary: Contents: Part 1; Seperate worlds, different visions. Chapter One: From the Atlantic to the Urals: De Gaulle's 'European' Europe and the United States as the ally of ultimate recourse. Chapter Two: The Atlantic 'Community' in American foreign policy: An ambiguous approach to the Cold War alliance. Part II - Dealing with De Gaulle. Chapter Three: Organizing the West: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and de Gaulle's 'Tripartite' memorandum proposal, 1958-1962. Chapter Four: Of Arms and Men: Kennedy, De Gaulle, and military-strategic reform, 1961-1962. Chapter Five: Whose kind of 'Europe'? Kennedy's tug of war with de Gaulle about the Common Market, 1961-1962. Chapter Six: The Clash: Kennedy and de Gaulle's Rejection of the Atlantic Partnership, 1962-1963. Chapter Seven: The demise of the last Atlantic project: LBJ and De Gaulle's attack on the multilateral force, 1963-1965. Chapter Eight: De Gaulle throws down the gauntlet: LBJ and the crisis in NATO, 1965-1967. Chapter Nine: Grand Designs Go Bankrupt. Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-534) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789089642141
- 9089642145
- OCLC:
- 505749919
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