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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400849468
035 _a(DE-B1597)447460
035 _a(OCoLC)861199868
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082 0 4 _a327.73
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKuklick, Bruce
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBlind Oracles :
_bIntellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger /
_cBruce Kuklick.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (264 p.) :
_b9 halftones.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tNote on Citations --
_tINTRODUCTION. The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge --
_tCHAPTER 1. Scientific Management and War, 1910-1960 --
_tCHAPTER 2. Theorists of War, 1945-1953 --
_tCHAPTER 3. RAND in Opposition, 1946-1961 --
_tCHAPTER 4. Accented and Unaccented Realism, 1946-1961 --
_tCHAPTER 5. RAND and the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1962 --
_tCHAPTER 6. Cuba and Nassau, 1962 --
_tCHAPTER 7. Intellectuals in Power, 1961-1966 --
_tCHAPTER 8. The Kennedy School of Government, 1964-1971 --
_tCHAPTER 9. The Pentagon Papers --
_tCHAPTER 10. Henry Kissinger --
_tCHAPTER 11. Diplomats on Foreign Policy, 1976-2001 --
_tConclusion --
_tAcknowledgments and Methodological Note --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400849468
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