Kuklick Blind Oracles

Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4946-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Bruce Kuklick is the Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written several books in American intellectual history and in American intellectual, political, and diplomatic history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuklick, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

Note on Citations xiii

INTRODUCTION: The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge 1

CHAPTER 1: Scientific Management and War, 1910-1960 17

CHAPTER 2: Theorists of War, 1945-1953 37

CHAPTER 3: RAND in Opposition, 1946-1961 49

CHAPTER 4: Accented and Unaccented Realism, 1946-1961 72

CHAPTER 5: RAND and the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1962 95

CHAPTER 6: Cuba and Nassau, 1962 110

CHAPTER 7: Intellectuals in Power, 1961-1966 128

CHAPTER 8: The Kennedy School of Government, 1964-1971 152

CHAPTER 9: The Pentagon Papers 168

CHAPTER 10: Henry Kissinger 182

CHAPTER 11: Diplomats on Foreign Policy, 1976-2001 204

Conclusion 223

Acknowledgments and Methodological Note 231

Index 235

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Kuklick is the Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written several books in American intellectual history and in American intellectual, political, and diplomatic history.