The First Resort of Kings: American Cultural Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century

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Author: Richard T. Arndt

ISBN-10: 1597970042

ISBN-13: 9781597970044

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A landmark study of the most-neglected tool of U.S. foreign policy

Ch. 1Cultural diplomacy from the Bronze Age to World War I1Ch. 2Total war and its aftershocks, 1917-193224Ch. 3Designing cultural relations, 1932-194049Ch. 4Nelson Rockefeller and other new boys, 1940-194575Ch. 5MacLeish's moment, spring, 194598Ch. 6Early field staffing : the point of contact121Ch. 7Two classic cultural products : architecture and libraries142Ch. 8Benton, Fulbright, Smith, and Mundt161Ch. 9Products and people : English, books, and two visionaries187Ch. 10Postwar losses and Fulbright's gift213Ch. 11Reorienting enemies, campaigning for truth237Ch. 12The birth of USIA264Ch. 13George Allen in the middle288Ch. 14New frontiers for old : Murrow and Coombs314Ch. 15Battle's rescue and the birth of the Peace Corps338Ch. 16The arts of vision360Ch. 17The ordeal of Charles Frankel380Ch. 18The arts of performance398Ch. 19Intellect, government, and Fulbright drift418Ch. 20Nixon and Ford, Shakespeare and Richardson437Ch. 21Six intellectual CAOs458Ch. 22Stanton's challenge : status quo or change?480Ch. 23Paved with good intentions : Carter's reorganization499Ch. 24Two decades of decline520Afterword : sunset or new dawn?544