Bruce L.R. Smith 
Lincoln Gordon [EPUB ebook] 
Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy

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After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. During his long career, Gordon worked as an aide to National Security Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman’s administration; for President John F. Kennedy as an author of the Alliance for Progress and as an adviser on Latin American policy; and for President Lyndon B. Johnson as assistant secretary of state. Gordon also served as the United States ambassador to Brazil under both Kennedy and Johnson. Outside the political sphere, he devoted his considerable talents to academia as a professor at Harvard University, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution, and as president at Johns Hopkins University.

In this impressive biography, Bruce L. R. Smith examines Gordon’s substantial contributions to U.S. mobilization during the Second World War, Europe’s postwar economic recovery, the security framework for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and U.S. policy in Latin America. He also highlights the vital efforts of the advisers who helped Gordon plan NATO’s force expansion and implement America’s dominant foreign policy favoring free trade, free markets, and free political institutions.

Smith, who worked with Gordon at the Brookings Institution, explores the statesman-scholar’s virtues as well as his flaws, and his study is strengthened by insights drawn from his personal connection to his subject. In many ways, Gordon’s life and career embodied Cold War America and the way in which the nation’s institutions evolved to manage the twentieth century’s vast changes. Smith adeptly shows how this ‘wise man’ personified both America’s postwar optimism and as its dawning realization of its own fallibility during the Vietnam era.

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Table of Content

Dorothy and Dad
Secular Humanism at Fieldston
Harvard in Three Years
An American at Oxford
Allison
Mobilizing for War
Controlling the Atom
Birth of the Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan in Action, 1949-1950
Nato: From Treaty to Alliance
London: A Respite
Business School Professor, 1955-1960
The Alliance for Progress and JFK Adviser
Ambassador to Brazil
Assistant Secretary
John Hopkins President
What Now?
Elder Statesman
Going Gently

About the author

Bruce L. R. Smith is a retired professor of political science at Columbia University and a Brookings Scholar. He is currently affiliated with the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. 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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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 536 ● ISBN 9780813161211 ● File size 3.5 MB ● Publisher The University Press of Kentucky ● City Lexington ● Country US ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6472560 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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