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Smith adeptly shows how this wise manpersonified both America's postwar optimism and as its dawning realization of its own fallibility during the Vietnam era.

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-Smith has produced a deeply researched, well-written account of the life of a dedicated public servant. [...] He has also illuminated the work that occurs below the policy levels to make ideas become concrete realities. Finally, Smith has given voice to a generation of part-time public servants who answered the nation's call during war and continued to serve it well beyond the war's end. It is this voice and this story that are Smith's most important contributions.- -- H-Net Reviews -An impressive book--well-written, often poignant, with special insights from the author's own connections with his subject. Smith has produced a model of how a biography can cast light on a transitional age, when the United States emerged from isolationism into a new world of affluence and vulnerability.- -- Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Conversion of Senator Vandenberg -Readers will learn a great deal about an individual who was 'present at the creation' of the post-World War II world and who was a model public servant--ambassador, university president, and key governmental advisor.- -- James M. McCormick, author of American Foreign Policy and Process Smith has produced a deeply researched, well-written account of the life of a dedicated public servant. [...] He has also illuminated the work that occurs below the policy levels to make ideas become concrete realities. Finally, Smith has given voice to a generation of part-time public servants who answered the nation's call during war and continued to serve it well beyond the war's end. It is this voice and this story that are Smith's most important contributions. -- H-Net Reviews An impressive book--well-written, often poignant, with special insights from the author's own connections with his subject. Smith has produced a model of how a biography can cast light on a transitional age, when the United States emerged from isolationism into a new world of affluence and vulnerability. -- Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Conversion of Senator Vandenberg Readers will learn a great deal about an individual who was 'present at the creation' of the post-World War II world and who was a model public servant--ambassador, university president, and key governmental advisor. -- James M. McCormick, author of American Foreign Policy and Process Smith has produced a deeply researched, well-written account of the life of a dedicated public servant. [...] He has also illuminated the work that occurs below the policy levels to make ideas become concrete realities. Finally, Smith has given voice to a generation of part-time public servants who answered the nation's call during war and continued to serve it well beyond the war's end. It is this voice and this story that are Smith's most important contributions. -- H-Net Reviews An impressive book--well-written, often poignant, with special insights from the author's own connections with his subject. Smith has produced a model of how a biography can cast light on a transitional age, when the United States emerged from isolationism into a new world of affluence and vulnerability. -- Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Conversion of Senator Vandenberg Readers will learn a great deal about an individual who was 'present at the creation' of the post-World War II world and who was a model public servant--ambassador, university president, and key governmental advisor. -- James M. McCormick, author of American Foreign Policy and Process

"""An impressive book--well-written, often poignant, with special insights from the author's own connections with his subject. Smith has produced a model of how a biography can cast light on a transitional age, when the United States emerged from isolationism into a new world of affluence and vulnerability."" -- Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Conversion of Senator Vandenberg ""Readers will learn a great deal about an individual who was 'present at the creation' of the post-World War II world and who was a model public servant--ambassador, university president, and key governmental advisor."" -- James M. McCormick, author of American Foreign Policy and Process ""Smith has produced a deeply researched, well-written account of the life of a dedicated public servant. [...] He has also illuminated the work that occurs below the policy levels to make ideas become concrete realities. Finally, Smith has given voice to a generation of part-time public servants who answered the nation's call during war and continued to serve it well beyond the war's end. It is this voice and this story that are Smith's most important contributions."" -- H-Net Reviews"

An impressive book--well-written, often poignant, with special insights from the author's own connections with his subject. Smith has produced a model of how a biography can cast light on a transitional age, when the United States emerged from isolationism into a new world of affluence and vulnerability. -- Lawrence S. Kaplan, author of The Conversion of Senator Vandenberg

Smith has produced a deeply researched, well-written account of the life of a dedicated public servant. [...] He has also illuminated the work that occurs below the policy levels to make ideas become concrete realities. Finally, Smith has given voice to a generation of part-time public servants who answered the nation's call during war and continued to serve it well beyond the war's end. It is this voice and this story that are Smith's most important contributions. -- <i>H-Net Reviews</i></p>

Readers will learn a great deal about an individual who was 'present at the creation' of the post-World War II world and who was a model public servant--ambassador, university president, and key governmental advisor. -- James M. McCormick, author of American Foreign Policy and Process

Smith has produced a deeply researched, well-written account of the life of a dedicated public servant. [...] He has also illuminated the work that occurs below the policy levels to make ideas become concrete realities. Finally, Smith has given voice to a generation of part-time public servants who answered the nation's call during war and continued to serve it well beyond the war's end. It is this voice and this story that are Smith's most important contributions. -- H-Net Reviews

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Bruce L.R. Smith is a retired professor of political science at Columbia University, USA and a Brookings Scholar. He is currently affiliated with the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, USA. He is the author or editor of many books, including American Science Policy since World War II, The RAND Corporation, and The Advisers: Scientists in the Policy Process.

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