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Roads Not Taken : An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Russian and East European StudiesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822983200
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roads Not TakenDDC classification:
  • 327.73009/04092 B
LOC classification:
  • E183
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The World Before The War -- 2. Colonel House and Public Relations -- 3. Global Responsibility -- 4. Between Versailles and the Kremlin -- 5. Resignation -- 6. It'S Not Done -- 7. Wives -- 8. Freud'S Coauthor and Savior -- 9. Honeymoon With Stalin -- 10. Bluff -- 11. The Theater Of Diplomacy -- 12. Disenchantment -- 13. Saving Paris -- 14. Fronts Of War -- 15. Homosexuals -- 16. Uniting Europe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt was a member of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919), the first Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1933-1936) and France (1936-1940), and the Special Representative of the President of the United States in the Middle East (1940). He played a huge role in the establishment of US-USSR relations on the eve of World War II. Based on Bullitt's unpublished papers and diplomatic documents from the Russian archives, this new biography presents Bullitt as a truly cosmopolitan American, one of the first politicians of the global era.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The World Before The War -- 2. Colonel House and Public Relations -- 3. Global Responsibility -- 4. Between Versailles and the Kremlin -- 5. Resignation -- 6. It'S Not Done -- 7. Wives -- 8. Freud'S Coauthor and Savior -- 9. Honeymoon With Stalin -- 10. Bluff -- 11. The Theater Of Diplomacy -- 12. Disenchantment -- 13. Saving Paris -- 14. Fronts Of War -- 15. Homosexuals -- 16. Uniting Europe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A journalist, diplomat, and writer, William Christian Bullitt was a member of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1919), the first Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1933-1936) and France (1936-1940), and the Special Representative of the President of the United States in the Middle East (1940). He played a huge role in the establishment of US-USSR relations on the eve of World War II. Based on Bullitt's unpublished papers and diplomatic documents from the Russian archives, this new biography presents Bullitt as a truly cosmopolitan American, one of the first politicians of the global era.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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