Download PDF by Bruce L.R. Smith: Lincoln Gordon: Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy

After global struggle II, American statesman and student Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of many key gamers within the reconstruction of Europe. in the course of his lengthy profession, Gordon labored as an aide to nationwide protection Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman's management; for President John F. Kennedy as an writer of the Alliance for development and as an adviser on Latin American coverage; and for President Lyndon B. Johnson as assistant secretary of nation. Gordon additionally served because the usa ambassador to Brazil below either Kennedy and Johnson. outdoors the political sphere, he committed his massive skills to academia as a professor at Harvard collage, as a student on the Brookings establishment, and as president at Johns Hopkins University.

In this extraordinary biography, Bruce L. R. Smith examines Gordon's immense contributions to U.S. mobilization through the moment international conflict, Europe's postwar monetary restoration, the protection framework for the North Atlantic Treaty association (NATO), and U.S. coverage in Latin the USA. He additionally highlights the important efforts of the advisers who helped Gordon plan NATO's strength enlargement and enforce America's dominant overseas coverage favoring loose exchange, loose markets, and unfastened political institutions.

Smith, who labored with Gordon on the Brookings establishment, explores the statesman-scholar's virtues in addition to his flaws, and his examine is reinforced by way of insights drawn from his own connection to his topic. in lots of methods, Gordon's lifestyles and profession embodied chilly battle the US and how during which the nation's associations advanced to control the 20 th century's large alterations. Smith adeptly exhibits how this "wise guy" personified either America's postwar optimism and as its dawning consciousness of its personal fallibility in the course of the Vietnam era.