Political woman : the big little life of Jeane Kirkpatrick / Peter Collier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collier, Peter, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomats--United States--Biography.

Diplomats.

College teachers--United States--Biography.

College teachers.

United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.

United States.

Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st American ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the Cold War to a victorious conclusion.Political Woman traces the complex interlock between Kirkpatrick's personal and professional lives using her as yet unarchived private papers and extensive interviews with her and her family and with dozens of friends and associates. The portrait that emerges, filled with c

Contents:

CONTENTS; Introduction; Heartland; Big Ideas; Kirk; American in Paris; "A Lousy Decade"; Public Intellectual; Reaganaut; Diplomacy without Apology; Rich in Enemies; The End of History; A Time of Subtraction; AUTHOR' S NOTE; SOURCE NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594036057

1594036055

OCLC:

795119947