Description
The acclaimed portrait of McGeorge and William Bundy, two brothers who served as architects of American policy during the Cold War and Vietnam–„a darkly dramatic story, told with sensitivity and political passion, of pride, power, privilege, hubris, and idealism“ (Ronald Steel, „The Washington Post“). of photos. Über den Autor Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and journalist. With Martin J. Sherwin, he won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2006 for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the inspiration for Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning Best Picture, Oppenheimer. Bird is Executive Director and Distinguished Lecturer at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for History and is the recipient of numerous fellowships. His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He is an elected member of the prestigious Society of American Historians.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2000 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780684856445 |
ISBN-10: | 0684856441 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Bird, Kai |
Hersteller: | Touchstone |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, [email protected] |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 31 mm |
Von/Mit: | Kai Bird |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.06.2000 |
Gewicht: | 0,829 kg |
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