Nixon in the world : American foreign relations, 1969-1977 / edited by Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Logevall, Fredrik, 1963- editor.

Preston, Andrew, 1973- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Political and social views.

Nixon, Richard M.

Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023--Political and social views.

Kissinger, Henry.

Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006--Political and social views.

Ford, Gerald R.

United States--Foreign relations--1969-1974.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1974-1977.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this work, 17 leading historians of the Cold War and US foreign policy show how Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford managed America's relative decline in the 1970s. It shows where they succeeded and where they took their new strategy too far.

Contents:

Introduction: The adventurous journey of Nixon in the world / Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston

An elusive grand design / Jussi M. Hanhimäki

Nixon as statesman : the failed campaign / David Greenberg

Henry Kissinger and American grand strategy / Jeremi Suri

Salesmanship and substance : the influence of domestic policy and Watergate / Dominic Sandbrook

Nixon, Kissinger, and the opening to China / Margaret MacMillan

Nuclear Nixon : ironies, puzzles, and the triumph of realpolitik / Francis J. Gavin

The frailties of grand strategies : a comparison of détente and ostpolitik / Mary Elise Sarotte

The United States and the making of the Helsinki Final Act / Michael Cotey Morgan

Waging war on all fronts : Nixon, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War, 1969-1972 / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

The end of the Vietnam War, 1973-1976 / Robert D. Schulzinger

The weight of conquest : Henry Kissinger and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Salim Yaqub

The danger of geopolitical fantasies : Nixon, Kissinger, and the South Asia crisis of 1971 / Robert J. McMahon

History from below : the United States and Latin America in the Nixon years / Mark Atwood Lawrence

Nixon shocks Japan, Inc. / Thomas W. Zeiler

Thanks for the fish : Nixon, Kissinger, and Canada / Robert Bothwell.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771502-8

0-19-988627-X

1-281-34207-6

9786611342074

0-19-971797-4

OCLC:

476243506