Introduction -- The pen as sword: George Kennan and the politics of authorship in the early Cold War -- Learn to write well: the China hands and the communist-ification of diplomatic reporting -- Revising the Vietnam balance sheet: the rhetorical logic of escalation versus George Ball's writerly logic of diplomacy -- The other plumbers unit: the dissent channel of the U.S. State Department -- Conclusion the life after: from internal dissenter to public prophet.
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