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Author:
Smith, Bruce L. R., author.
Title:
The last gentleman : Thomas Hughes and the end of the American century / Bruce L. R. Smith.
Publisher:
Brookings Institution Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xi, 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Hughes, Thomas Lowe,--1925-
Hughes, Thomas Lowe,--1925-
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
United States--History--1945-
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
Diplomatic relations.
Politics and government.
Statesmen.
United States.
Since 1945
Biographies.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Beginner Boy -- Teacher's Pet -- Student Federalist -- With Bowles and Humphrey -- Bowles in Congress -- The 1960 Presidential Election -- The New Frontier -- Intelligence and Covert Operations -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Diplomacy -- The Overthrow of Diem -- The Gulf of Tonkin Crisis -- The 1964 Vice Presidency -- The Humphrey-Hughes Memo -- Point of No Return -- Speaking Out -- The Most Turbulent Year -- London -- Carnegie: The House That Hughes Built -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN:
0815738900
9780815738909
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1176315296
LCCN:
2021945711
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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