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- catalog abstract "He was a prominent member of Congress, a brilliant administrator, an advisor to Presidents, an influential political figure in the old conservative style. He embodied the traits of free thinking and independence that are regarded as emblematic of the American character. He was perhaps the last American ambassador to have any major impact on U.S. foreign policy. Yet, as the authors show in their insightful biography, Lewis Douglas spent the final twenty years of his life disillusioned and disenchanted with the direction of American leadership. The authors focus on what was perhaps the most telling of Douglas's roles : his service under President Truman as ambassador to Great Britain from 1947 to 1950. A popular diplomat and a close friend of Winston Churchill, he played a prominent part in the launching of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade, the creation of Israel, and the forging of the North Atlantic alliance. The last two decades of his life were a time of frustration and unhappiness with both Republican and Democratic administrations, especially in the area of foreign policy. Browder and Smith have chronicled a remarkable career in a book that sheds new light on many historically significant events, and fully portrays the successes and failures, the determination and integrity, the worth, of a truly independent man. --from inside jacket flap.".
- catalog contributor b658265.
- catalog contributor b658266.
- catalog created "1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1986.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 463-473.".
- catalog description "He was a prominent member of Congress, a brilliant administrator, an advisor to Presidents, an influential political figure in the old conservative style. He embodied the traits of free thinking and independence that are regarded as emblematic of the American character. He was perhaps the last American ambassador to have any major impact on U.S. foreign policy. Yet, as the authors show in their insightful biography, Lewis Douglas spent the final twenty years of his life disillusioned and disenchanted with the direction of American leadership. The authors focus on what was perhaps the most telling of Douglas's roles : his service under President Truman as ambassador to Great Britain from 1947 to 1950. A popular diplomat and a close friend of Winston Churchill, he played a prominent part in the launching of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade, the creation of Israel, and the forging of the North Atlantic alliance. The last two decades of his life were a time of frustration and unhappiness with both Republican and Democratic administrations, especially in the area of foreign policy. Browder and Smith have chronicled a remarkable career in a book that sheds new light on many historically significant events, and fully portrays the successes and failures, the determination and integrity, the worth, of a truly independent man. --from inside jacket flap.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 491 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Independent.".
- catalog identifier "039449878X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Independent.".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "Independent.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Douglas, Lewis W. (Lewis Williams), 1894-".
- catalog subject "Douglas, Lewis W. (Lewis Williams), 1894-1974.".
- catalog subject "E748.D679 B76 1986".
- catalog subject "Legislators United States Biography.".
- catalog title "Independent : a biography of Lewis W. Douglas / Robert Paul Browder and Thomas G. Smith.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".