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Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking memoir, W. W. Rostow takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the
Trade Review"Rostow can be placed in the category of Dean Rusk and others who pondered difficult issues, made judgments, and had to live with them... He was part of the establishment, a wise man, one who was very successful... [His] memoirs are bound to interest many people, scholars and officials alike. They [offer] a fascinating look at several decades of history and scholarship." Thomas W. Zeiler, author of Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938
- 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944?
- 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1999: The Hinge Was Poland
- 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off
- 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure
- 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion
- 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle
- 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized
- 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution
- 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut?
- 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control
- 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century
- 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread
- 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History
- Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946
- Appendix B
- Appendix C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech
- Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2002
- Notes
- Index
