Accidental encounters with history (and some lessons learned)
By: Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield.
Publisher: Hot House Press; Hot House Pr
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cohasset, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Bloomfield, Lincoln Palmer, 1920-; United States. Dept. of State -- Officials and employees -- Biography.; National Security Council (U.S.) -- Officials and employees -- Biography.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Biography.; World politics -- 20th century.; Historians -- United States -- Biography.; Political scientists -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Bureaucracy I, 1941-71 : dreams, and nightmares, of public service; title: Bureaucracy II, 1953-57 : the genetically-engineered Secretary of State; title: Bureaucracy III, 1979-80 : the atmosphere gets rarified; title: Bureaucracy IV, 1945-2005 : the triangular foreign policy machine; title: Cold War scholar I, 1957-70 : the leaning tower of ivory; title: Cold War scholar II, 1958-71 : playing games with foreign policy; title: The real world I, 1970-89 : the Soviet Union from tyranny to turmoil; title: The real world II, 1976 : the Middle East : kings, bombs, and touch football; title: The real world III, 1961-93 : the rest of the map; title: Lessons I : can foreign policy ever be rational?; title: Lessons II : my moderate utopia.