Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 390
978-0-8157-3890-9 • Paperback • January 2022 • $34.99 • (£27.00)
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Bruce L. R. Smith is a retired professor political science at Columbia University and senior staff member at the Brookings Institution. His work has been in the fields of American politics, American foreign policy, and the impact of science on public affairs. His previous books include Lincoln Gordon: Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy; Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities (with J. D. Mayer and A. L. Fritschler); The Advisers: Scientists in the Policy, American Science Policy Since World War II; and The RAND Corporation: Case Study of a Nonprofit Advisory Corporation.
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. Beginner Boy
2. Teacher’s Pet
3. Student Federalist
4. With Bowles and Humphrey
5. Bowles in Congress
6. The 1960 Presidential Election
7. The New Frontier
8. Intelligence and Covert Operations
9. The Cuban Missile Crisis
10. Diplomacy
11. The Overthrow of Diem
12. The Gulf of Tonkin Crisis
13. The 1964 Vice Presidency
14. The Humphrey-Hughes Memo
15. Point of No Return
16. Speaking Out
17. The Most Turbulent Year
18. London
19. Carnegie: The House That Hughes Built
Epilogue
Notes
Index