The Last Brahmin : : Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
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Part I. The making of a Brahmin -- Early life -- First political steps -- U.S. Senate -- Part II. The making of an internationalist -- World War II -- Return to the Senate -- Drafting Ike -- A Lodge-Kennedy rematch -- Part III. The Eisenhower years -- The UN (1953-1957) -- The UN (1957-1960) -- The 1960 campaign -- Part IV. The Kennedy years -- Saigon -- Diem -- A coup -- Part V. The Johnson years - Lodge for President -- LBJ and Vietnam -- West Germany and 1968 -- Part VI. The Nixon and Ford years -- The Paris peace talks -- Envoy to the Vatican -- Retirement and epilogue -- Appendix: President Ngo Dinh Diem's handwritten notes, November 1, 1963.
Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under presidents of both parties. For three decades, he was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as advisor to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and as ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, West Germany, and the Vatican.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0300217803
9780300217803
SUBJECTS
Lodge, Henry Cabot, -- Jr., -- 1902-1985.
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography.
Cold War.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.