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- catalog abstract ""A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W.W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking memoir, he takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call "the future.""--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12825119.
- catalog coverage "United States Foreign relations 1945-".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W.W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking memoir, he takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call "the future.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 1 -- 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944? 27 -- 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989: The Hinge Was Poland 59 -- 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off 96 -- 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure 137 -- 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion 188 -- 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle 254 -- 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized 262 -- 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution 279 -- 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? 295 -- 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control 317 -- 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century 332 -- 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread 346 -- 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History 354 -- Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 359 -- Appendix B. The Question of East Germany Immediately after Stalin's Death 365 -- Appendix C. Text of W.W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech 369 -- Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2001 377.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-426) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 454 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Concept and controversy.".
- catalog identifier "029277124X (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Concept and controversy.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "Concept and controversy.".
- catalog spatial "United States Foreign relations 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "327.73/009/045 21".
- catalog subject "Cold War.".
- catalog subject "D843 .R656 2003".
- catalog subject "Statesmen United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "World politics 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 1 -- 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944? 27 -- 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989: The Hinge Was Poland 59 -- 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off 96 -- 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure 137 -- 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion 188 -- 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle 254 -- 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized 262 -- 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution 279 -- 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? 295 -- 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control 317 -- 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century 332 -- 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread 346 -- 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History 354 -- Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 359 -- Appendix B. The Question of East Germany Immediately after Stalin's Death 365 -- Appendix C. Text of W.W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech 369 -- Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2001 377.".
- catalog title "Concept and controversy : sixty years of taking ideas to market / by W.W. Rostow.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".