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Douglas Dillon / Patricia Beard ; prologue by Tom Brokaw.
LIBRA E840.8.D55 B32 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beard, Patricia, author.
- Brokaw, Tom, author of forword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003.
- Dillon, C. Douglas.
- United States. Department of State.
- United States. Department of the Treasury.
- Ambassadors--United States--Biography.
- Ambassadors.
- United States.
- United States. Department of the Treasury--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States. Department of State--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Cabinet officers--United States--Biography.
- Cabinet officers.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--1961-1963.
- United States--Foreign relations--1963-1969.
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
- United States--Foreign economic relations.
- International economic relations.
- United States--Economic policy--1961-1971.
- Economic policy.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 293 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : TidePool Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Part I: Beginnings : 1. "Baron" and Son
- 2. Groton and Harvard: 1921-1931
- 3. Two Depressions: 1931-1936
- 4. Storm clouds
- 5. Interim
- Part II: Statesman : 6. Paris
- 7. Three crises: Indochina, Algeria, & Suez
- 8. The State Department: 1957-1960
- 9. The Russians are coming
- 10. The Kennedy courtship: the right man, the wrong party
- 11. Secretary of the Treasury
- 12. Cuban connections
- 13. The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 14. 1993
- 15. Douglas Dillon and LBJ: November 1963-April 1965
- Part III: Chairman of change : 16. Private public service in a time of upheaval
- 17. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: politics & renewal
- 18. The Centennial and the succession
- 19. The legacy: the Asian collection
- 20. 1965-2003.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780997848243
- 0997848243
- OCLC:
- 1102362438
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