Concept and Controversy
Subtitle: Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: July 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780292771246
Subjects: Biography: general; Central government policies; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; International Relations - General; Political History; Public Policy - General; Political Science / Essays; History & Theory - General; 1945-; 20th century; Biography; Cold War; Foreign relations; Statesmen; United States; World politics
Description: "A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W.W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking memoir, he 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 long run that we call "the future.""--Jacket.