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Author: Fredrik Logevall (Professor of History, Professor of History, Cornell University) ,
Andrew Preston (University Lecturer in History and Fellow, University Lecturer in History and Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780195315363
ISBN 10: 0195315367
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 10 July 2008
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General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
An outstanding overview of the Nixon era in international affairs. Nixon in the World helps us better understand both the historical uniqueness of the detente approach, and the reasons for its defeat. Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics
"""Logevall and Preston have done a splendid job assembling a valuable collection that should help quiet those who continue to celebrate Nixon's diplomatic brilliance.""--Melvin Small, The Journal of American History ""An outstanding overview of the Nixon era in international affairs. Nixon in the World helps us better understand both the historical uniqueness of the détente approach, and the reasons for its defeat.""--Odd Arne Westad, London School of Economics ""'Rescuing choice from circumstance' was a mantra of Nixon and Kissinger as they tried to steer the ship of state in the face of turmoil abroad and turbulence at home. These essays vividly illuminate the challenges they faced, the methods they employed, and the successes and failures they experienced. The book is a major contribution to our understanding of a fascinating era in the history of U.S. foreign relations.""--Melvyn P. Leffler, author of For the Soul of Mankind ""These essays shed much light on the fascinating and elusive Nixon administration. Each is excellent and can be read with profit by itself, but unlike many collections it is even better read cover-to-cover. Both Nixon as a peculiar leader and American foreign policy are revealed in rich detail.""--Robert Jervis, author of American Foreign Policy in a New Era ""This volume offers a fresh perspective, and...I highly recommend it to specialists and non-specialists alike.""--Dan Caldwell, Journal of Cold War Studies ""An outstanding volume...[A] book to be read in its entirety.""--Diplomatic History ""Nixon in the World casts aside many of the polemics that attached themselves to the thirty-seventh president during the 1970s, and advances in their place a confident yet nuanced story about détente...Nixon in the World tells a story of U.S. foreign policy during this age of upheaval, and it does so with analytical precision and interpretive balance.""--H-Net Reviews"
Author Information
Fredrik Logevall is Professor of History at Cornell and the author of Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam, among other works. Andrew Preston is University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University and the author of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam.
