J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy

by Randall Bennett Woods

Overview

J. William Fulbright was the longest serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also the most prominent, and the most effective, of the first American critics of the Vietnam War. Fulbright's criticism was particularly galling and damning to Lyndon Johnson because Fulbright was a principled internationalist who could not be dismissed as an ideologue. Fulbright used hearings by the Foreign Relations Committee as a forum in which to advance his powerful critique of the war. This book is an abridgement of Randall Woods' prize-winning biography of J. William Fulbright. This edition presents the full story of Fulbright's role as one of the leading congressional opponents of the Vietnam War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521620598
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/13/1998
Edition description:	ABR
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

1. Taking the stage; 2. Cuba and Camelot; 3. 'Freedom's Judas-Coat'; 4. Of myths and realities; 5. Avoiding Armageddon; 6. Escalation; 7. Texas hyperbole; 8. The hearings; 9. The politics of dissent; 10. Widening the credibility gap; 11. The price of Empire; 12. Denouement; 13. Nixon and Kissinger; 14. Of arms and men; 15. Sparta or Athens?; 16. Cambodia; 17. A foreign affairs alternative; 18. Privileges and immunities; 19. The invisible wars; 20. Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

"The publication of the book is a welcome event, not least because it may bring Woods's remarkable account of Fulbright and his times to a new audience. Moreover, the book is highly relevant in its treatment of a still unresolved issue - the question of who shapes and controls U.S. foreign policy." Journal of Cold War Studies

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