Authors: Richard T. Arndt
ISBN-13: 9781597970044, ISBN-10: 1597970042
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Date Published: March 2007
Edition: 1st Edition
Richard T. Arndt worked for USIA for twenty-four years after earning a doctorate and teaching at Columbia University. Since retiring from the USIA, he has served as the president of the U.S. Fulbright Association, coedited The Fulbright Difference, 1948-1992, chaired the National Peace Foundation, and is currently the president of Americans for UNESCO. He lives in Washington, D.C.
A landmark study of the most-neglected tool of U.S. foreign policy
Ch. 1 | Cultural diplomacy from the Bronze Age to World War I | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Total war and its aftershocks, 1917-1932 | 24 |
Ch. 3 | Designing cultural relations, 1932-1940 | 49 |
Ch. 4 | Nelson Rockefeller and other new boys, 1940-1945 | 75 |
Ch. 5 | MacLeish's moment, spring, 1945 | 98 |
Ch. 6 | Early field staffing : the point of contact | 121 |
Ch. 7 | Two classic cultural products : architecture and libraries | 142 |
Ch. 8 | Benton, Fulbright, Smith, and Mundt | 161 |
Ch. 9 | Products and people : English, books, and two visionaries | 187 |
Ch. 10 | Postwar losses and Fulbright's gift | 213 |
Ch. 11 | Reorienting enemies, campaigning for truth | 237 |
Ch. 12 | The birth of USIA | 264 |
Ch. 13 | George Allen in the middle | 288 |
Ch. 14 | New frontiers for old : Murrow and Coombs | 314 |
Ch. 15 | Battle's rescue and the birth of the Peace Corps | 338 |
Ch. 16 | The arts of vision | 360 |
Ch. 17 | The ordeal of Charles Frankel | 380 |
Ch. 18 | The arts of performance | 398 |
Ch. 19 | Intellect, government, and Fulbright drift | 418 |
Ch. 20 | Nixon and Ford, Shakespeare and Richardson | 437 |
Ch. 21 | Six intellectual CAOs | 458 |
Ch. 22 | Stanton's challenge : status quo or change? | 480 |
Ch. 23 | Paved with good intentions : Carter's reorganization | 499 |
Ch. 24 | Two decades of decline | 520 |
Afterword : sunset or new dawn? | 544 |