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The dissent papers : the voices of diplomats in the Cold War and beyond / Hannah Gurman.
LIBRA E840 .G87 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gurman, Hannah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diplomats.
- History.
- Diplomatic history.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Cold War--Diplomatic history.
- Cold War.
- Diplomats--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The pen as sword: George Kennan and the politics of authorship in the early Cold War
- Learn to write well: the China hands and the communist-ification of diplomatic reporting
- Revising the Vietnam balance sheet: the rhetorical logic of escalation versus George Ball's writerly logic of diplomacy
- The other plumbers unit: the dissent channel of the U.S. State Department
- Conclusion the life after: from internal dissenter to public prophet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231158725
- 0231158726
- 9780231530354
- 0231530358
- OCLC:
- 730413643
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