TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuklick,Bruce
TI  - Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger 
SN  - 9780691133874
U1  - 327.73 22
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Note on Citations --; INTRODUCTION. The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge --; CHAPTER 1. Scientific Management and War, 1910-1960 --; CHAPTER 2. Theorists of War, 1945-1953 --; CHAPTER 3. RAND in Opposition, 1946-1961 --; CHAPTER 4. Accented and Unaccented Realism, 1946-1961 --; CHAPTER 5. RAND and the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1962 --; CHAPTER 6. Cuba and Nassau, 1962 --; CHAPTER 7. Intellectuals in Power, 1961-1966 --; CHAPTER 8. The Kennedy School of Government, 1964-1971 --; CHAPTER 9. The Pentagon Papers --; CHAPTER 10. Henry Kissinger --; CHAPTER 11. Diplomats on Foreign Policy, 1976-2001 --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments and Methodological Note --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War, Kuklick examines the role of both institutional policymakers such as those at The Rand Corporation and Harvard's Kennedy School, and individual thinkers including Paul Nitze, McGeorge Bundy, and Walt Rostow. Kuklick contends that the figures having the most influence on American strategy--Kissinger, for example--clearly understood the way politics and the exercise of power affects policymaking. Other brilliant thinkers, on the other hand, often played a minor role, providing, at best, a rationale for policies adopted for political reasons. At a time when the role of the neoconservatives' influence over American foreign policy is a subject of intense debate, this book offers important insight into the function of intellectuals in foreign policymaking
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