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This biography of Chester Bowles is also the story of America finding its place in a changing world--remarkably relevant to our own post-cold war era. Former ambassador Schaffer draws on a wealth of documents and interviews with some of the nation's top foreign policy makers in the post-WWII years. 22 halftones.
Africa's Challenge to America by Chester Bowles Pdf
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.
Chester Bowles' public career spans twenty-nine years in an exceptionally wide range of activities. He has served six presidents, held state and federal offices, in wartime and in peace, at home and abroad. He has long been one of America's outstanding liberal spokesmen. Professor Henry Steele Commanger has cited Mr. Bowles as the best example of a "new kind of public servant," a man "who considers himself not exclusively the spokesman of a particular interest, or economy, or political system, but of the interests of man." Yet Promises to Keep is more than the record of one man's public career. It is also the story of the currents of change and of the opposition to change that have characterized America since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Bowles' readiness to challenge deeply rooted special interests, to advocate unpopular positions, and to speak out for what he believes in has brought him into frequent conflict with some fo the highest officials in our government. His memoirs tell the story of these conflicts in full. As OPA Administrator during World War II, Mr. Bowles and the remarkable organization which he created successfully "held the line" against inflation, battling lobbyists, other government officials and members of Congress in the process. Later, as Governor of Connecticut, he introduced far-reaching legislation to reorganize the archaic state government and to bring it closer to the people. Although many of his "radical" proposals were blocked during his term of office, most of them were subsequently enacted into law. As President Kennedy's Under Secretary of State, Mr. Bowles was largely responsible for bringing into diplomatic service a "new breed" of ambassador. But his efforts to introduce fresh thinking in the tradition-bound State Department ran into heavy weather. Mr. Bowles was the key figure in the New Frontier's first major reshuffling of high-level officials. As Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. worte in A Thousand Days, "Bowles [was] the hapless victim of the conditions which he diagnosed better than anyone else." He has also been one of the very few men who from the beginning sensed the danger of our growing involvement in Indochina and offered alternative policies. Keenly aware of the attitudes and aspirations of the people of Asia, he here expresses views sharply critical of U.S. foreign policy and charges that America has failed to understand and act on the forces shaping the non-Western world. These memoirs, written with characteristic personal warmth, evoke three decades of crucial importance. Yet, as Mr. Bowles writes, "the cycle of success and failure which I shall describe should be considered not as nostalgia for old battles won or lost, but as the first skirmishes of the struggle which lies ahead."
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by United States. Superintendent of Documents Pdf
Lists all publications issued in 1941-46 received int the Library of the Public Documents Division too late for inclusion in the current Monthly catalog and certain publications received in 1947 which were declassified, etc.
Examining the literature produced by Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Alfred Chester while they were American expatriates in the Moroccan city of Tangier, Mullins (Evergreen State College) reflects on how their writings represented the interaction between sexual politics and colonialism. Applying concepts from queer theory and colonial theory, he looks at a range of issues swirling around the city where cultures, sexualities, and politics met with differing levels of power. Among these are the Western experience of Morroco as a destination of homosexual tourism, sexual tourism as situated in contexts of colonial relationships and financial transactions, the equation of colonial relationships with gendered spheres of power, and the accommodations of Moroccan society to practices it ostensibly condemned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This selection of speeches and articles turned out by the U.S. Ambassador to India from 1963 to 1969 is fresh, informative, and pertinent, documenting as it does the range and intensity of the American government's interest in the problems of a developing country. For all of Chester Bowles' passion for ideas, he anchors his most speculative thinking in solid fact. Both because of his analysis and interpretation and because of the wealth of interesting facts about India, the United States, and the Far East built into every page, this volume contains much of consequence for anyone concerned about the role of the United States in Asia. It also reflects the new India emerging at the moment of the generational change in the leadership which led it to independence. A former Governor and Congressman from Connecticut, as well as an economic administrator under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, Mr. Bowles first went to India as Ambassador in 1951. John F. Kennedy made him Under Secretary of State in 1961, and then two years later he returned to India where he again served as Ambassador until April 1969. When Kennedy announced the nomination in 1963, he said: "No American has a deeper understanding of India and Asia than Governor Bowles."
Drawing on recently declassified government documents, Merrill examines U.S. foreign economic policy toward India from its independence to President Kennedy's assassination. He considers the politics, ideology, and functioning of the large economic assistance effort in India, and also provides insights into the failures of U.S. economic strategies in the Third World during the Cold War. According to Merrill, rapid growth of aid to nonaligned India began during the Eisenhower Administration, which declared the policy of the United States to convince "people in the less developed areas that there is a way of life by which they can have bread and the ballot." The volume also includes Indian views on relevant economic and political issues. ISBN 0-8078-1920-4: $39.95.
In this first biography of Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984), Howard Schaffer traces the life of one of postwar America's foremost diplomats from his formative years as a successful businessman and lobbyist through a long career in international affairs. Named ambassador to Argentina by Harry Truman in 1951, Bunker went on to serve six more presidents as ambassador to Italy, India, Nepal, and Vietnam and on special negotiating missions. A widely recognized "hawk," Bunker helped shape U.S. policy in Vietnam during his six-year Saigon posting. Using letters Bunker wrote to his wife as well as recently declassified messages he exchanged with Henry Kissinger, Schaffer examines how Bunker promoted the war effort and how he regarded his mission. After leaving Saigon on his seventy-ninth birthday, Bunker next became a key figure in the treaty negotiations, spanning three presidencies, that radically changed the operation and defense of the Panama Canal. Highlighting Bunker's views on the craft of diplomacy, Schaffer paints a complex picture of a man who devoted three decades to international affairs and sheds new light on post-World War II American diplomacy. This book is part of the ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, co-sponsored by the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training in Arlington, Virginia, and Diplomatic & Consular Officers, Retired, Inc., of Washington, D.C.
"Grey is the color of truth." So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It is a portrait of fiercely patriotic, brilliant and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not believe could be won. Bird draws on seven years of research, nearly one hundred interviews, and scores of still-classified top secret documents in a masterful reevaluation of America's actions throughout the Cold War and Vietnam.
