Ellsworth Bunker : global troubleshooter, Vietnam hawk / Howard B. Schaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaffer, Howard B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ambassadors--United States--Biography.

Ambassadors.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Diplomatic history.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

Bunker, Ellsworth, 1894-1984.

Bunker, Ellsworth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of postwar America's foremost diplomats from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs. Named ambassador to Argentina by Harry Truman in 1951, Bunker went on to serve six more presidents as ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and Vietnam and on special negotiating missions. A widely recognized "hawk, " Bunker helped shape U.S. policy in Vietnam during his six-year Saigon posting. Using letters Bunker wrote to his wife as well as recently declassified messages he exchanged with Henry Kissinger, Schaffer examines how Bunker promoted the war effort and how he regarded his mission. After leaving Saigon on his seventy-ninth birthday, Bunker next became a key figure in the treaty negotiations, spanning three presidencies, that radically changed the operation and defense of the Panama Canal. Highlighting Bunker's views on the craft of diplomacy, Schaffer paints a complex picture of a man who devoted three decades to international affairs and sheds new light on post-World War II American diplomacy. This book is part of the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, co-sponsored by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in Arlington, Virginia, and Diplomatic & Consular Officers, Retired, Inc., of Washington, D.C.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

1. The Years before Diplomacy

Notes

2. A ''Correct'' Year with the Peróns

3. On, Briefly, to Rome

4. Red Cross President

5. In Nehru's India

Photo Section 1

6. Recharging the Battery

7. The West New Guinea Negotiations

8. Brokering a Yemen Settlement

9. Troubleshooting in the Dominican Republic and Elsewhere

10. To Center Stage in Vietnam

11. Tet and Afterwards

12. Vietnamization Has Succeeded

Photo Section 2

13. The Panama Canal Negotiations

14. Final Chapter

Bibliography

Index

A-B

C

D

E-H

I-J

K-L

M

N

O-R

S-T

U-V

W-Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890877543

9780807862223

0807862223

OCLC:

609291537