Zbig : the life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's great power prophet / Edward Luce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luce, Edward, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabinet officers--United States--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

National security--United States--History--20th century.

National security.

Polish Americans--Biography.

Polish Americans.

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017.

Brzezinski, Zbigniew.

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024.

Carter, Jimmy.

National Security Council (U.S.)--Biography.

National Security Council (U.S.).

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

545 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's great power prophet

Place of Publication:

New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025.

Summary:

"An intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski -- President Carter's national security advisor and one of America's leading geopolitical thinkers -- from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today. Zbigniew Brzezinski was a key architect of the Soviet Union's demise, which ended the Cold War. A child of Warsaw -- the heart of central Europe's bloodlands -- Brzezinski turned his fierce resentment at his homeland's razing by Nazi Germany and the Red Army into a lifelong quest for liberty. Born the year that Joseph Stalin consolidated power, and dying a few months into Donald Trump's first presidency, Brzezinski was shaped by and in turn shaped the global power struggles of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As counsel to US presidents from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, and chief foreign policy figure of the late 1970s under Jimmy Carter, Brzezinski converted his acclaim as a Sovietologist into Washington power. With Henry Kissinger, his lifelong rival with whom he had a fraught on-off relationship, he personified the new breed of foreign-born scholar who thrived in America's "Cold War University" -- and who ousted Washington's gentlemanly class of WASPs who had run U.S. foreign policy for so long. Brzezinski's impact, aided by his unusual friendship with the Polish-born John Paul II, sprang from his knowledge of Moscow's "Achilles heel" -- the fact that its nationalities, such as the Ukrainians, and satellite states, including Poland, yearned to shake off Moscow's grip. Neither a hawk nor a dove, Brzezinski was a biting critic of George W. Bush's Iraq War and an early endorser of Obama. Because he went against the DC grain of joining factions, and was on occasion willing to drop Democrats for Republicans, Brzezinski is something of history's orphan. His historic role has been greatly underweighted. In the almost cinematic arc of his life can be found the grand narrative of the American century and great power struggle that followed." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Interbellum Warsaw

Between Two Worlds

A Pole in Cambridge

Falling Towards Washington

The Warrior Dove

Zbig Heaven

The Sands of Ogaden

Twilight of the Doves

The Ayatollah and the Pope

The Conservative Years

Autumnal Battles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-515) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Luce, Edward, 1968- Zbig

ISBN:

9781982173647

1982173645

OCLC:

1460921092

Publisher Number:

90101959681