Ike's mystery man : the secret lives of Robert Cutler / Peter Shinkle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shinkle, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cutler, Robert, 1895-1974.

Cutler, Robert.

National Security Council (U.S.)--20th century--Biography.

National Security Council (U.S.).

Cabinet officers--United States--20th century--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

Statesmen--United States--20th century--Biography.

Statesmen.

Closeted gay people--United States--20th century--Biography.

Closeted gay people.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 401 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Secret lives of Robert Cutler

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press L.L.C., 2018.

Summary:

"President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert "Bobby" Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than previously understood. A lifelong Republican, Cutler also served three Democratic presidents. The life of any party, he was a tight-lipped loyalist who worked behind the scenes to get things done. While Cutler's contributions to the public sphere may not have received, until now, the consideration they deserve, the story of his private life has never before been told. Cutler struggled throughout his years in the White House to discover and embrace his own sexual identity and orientation, and he was in love with a man half his age, NSC staffer Skip Koons. Cutler poured his emotions into a six-volume diary and dozens of letters that have been hidden from history. Steve Benedict, who was White House security officer, Cutlers' friend and Koons' friend and former lover, preserved Cutler's papers. All three men served Eisenhower at a time when anyone suspected of "sexual perversion", i.e. homosexuality, was banned from federal employment and vulnerable to security sweeps by the FBI."--Amazon.com.

Contents:

Preface

Bostonian republicans

Bachelor

Wartime

From old colony to psychological warfare

With Ike to victory

Transition

The gay spy

Reforming and running the NSC

Ike's peculiar ban on gays

The passion of Oppenheimer

The Iran coup

Mystery man

The Guatemala coup

The Dr. Dick House, Joe McCarthy, and "sexual perversion"

Exploiting Soviet vulnerabilities

"Losing my right arm"

The return

"The greatest adventure of my life"

Sputnik, turmoil, and love

Challenging US nuclear strategy

Venice, midnight

"I love him..."

Investigations

and agony

Ike's man in Latin America

"That which I am, I am."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-391) and index.

ISBN:

9781586422431

158642243X

OCLC:

1028835683