The dissent papers
Subtitle: the voices of diplomats in the Cold War and beyond
By: Hannah Gurman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231158725; 9780231530354
Subjects: Diplomatic history; Cold War; Diplomats; Foreign relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The pen as sword: George Kennan and the politics of authorship in the early Cold War; title: Learn to write well: the China hands and the communist-ification of diplomatic reporting; title: Revising the Vietnam balance sheet: the rhetorical logic of escalation versus George Ball's writerly logic of diplomacy; title: The other plumbers unit: the dissent channel of the U.S. State Department; title: Conclusion the life after: from internal dissenter to public prophet.