| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Descript |
1 online resource (xxi, 602 pages) |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-592) and index. |
| Contents |
CHAPTER 1: Cultural Diplomacy from the Bronze Age to World War I -- CHAPTER 2: Total War and Its Aftershocks, 1917-1932 -- CHAPTER 3: Designing Cultural Relations, 1932-1940 -- CHAPTER 4: Nelson Rockefeller and Other New Boys, 1940-1945 -- CHAPTER 5: MacLeish's Moment, Spring, 1945 -- CHAPTER 6: Early Field Staffing: The Point of Contact -- CHAPTER 7: Two Classic Cultural Products: Architecture and Libraries -- CHAPTER 8: Benton, Fulbright, Smith, and Mundt -- CHAPTER 9: English Products and People: Books, and Two Visionaries -- CHAPTER 10: Postwar Losses and Fulbright's Gift -- CHAPTER 11: Reorienting Enemies, Campaigning for Truth -- CHAPTER 12: The Birth of USIA -- CHAPTER 13: George Allen in the Middle -- CHAPTER 14: New Frontiers for Old: Murrow and Coombs -- CHAPTER 15: Battle's Rescue and the Birth of the Peace Corps -- CHAPTER 16: The Arts of Vision -- CHAPTER 17: The Ordeal of Charles Frankel -- CHAPTER 18: The Arts of Performance -- CHAPTER 19: Intellect, Government, and Fulbright Drift -- CHAPTER 20: Nixon and Ford, Shakespeare and Richardson -- CHAPTER 21: Six Intellectual CAOs -- CHAPTER 22: Stanton's Challenge: Status Quo or Change? -- CHAPTER 23: Paved with Good Intentions: Carter's Reorganization -- CHAPTER 24: Two Decades of Decline -- AFTERWORD: Sunset or New Dawn? |
| Summary |
A landmark study of the most-neglected tool of U.S. foreign policy. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
United States. Department of State -- History -- 20th century.
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United States Information Agency -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. Department of State. (OCoLC)fst01802976 |
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United States Information Agency. (OCoLC)fst00576010 |
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United States -- Relations.
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Cultural relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Educational exchanges -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. |
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Cultural relations. (OCoLC)fst00885050 |
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Diplomats. (OCoLC)fst00894415 |
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Educational exchanges. (OCoLC)fst00903451 |
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International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053 |
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155 |
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Culturele betrekkingen. |
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Diplomatieke betrekkingen. |
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1900-1999 |
| ISBN |
9781429490146 (electronic bk.) |
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1429490144 (electronic bk.) |
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9781612342399 (electronic bk.) |
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1612342396 (electronic bk.) |
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1574885871 (alk. paper) |
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9781574885873 (alk. paper) |
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1597970042 (pbk.) |
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9781597970044 (pbk.) |
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