Douglas MacArthur : Statecraft and Stagecraft in America's East Asian Policy Hardback
by Russell D. Buhite
Part of the Biographies in American Foreign Policy series
Hardback
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Buhite offers a trenchant evaluation of Douglas MacArthur's career in east Asia and his role in some of the most important military and diplomatic issues of the twentieth century.
Concise and highly readable, this biography considers diplomatic fact in light of psychological insight, and asks us to look anew at both MacArthur and American involvement in the region.
From Manila to Washington, with Tokyo and Seoul in between, readers follow the course of American foreign diplomacy in East Asia via MacArthur's own career.
This fascinating intersection of personality and policy would make for newsreel footage and newspaper headlines, such as when he waded ashore Luzon Island in the Philippines and sent Washington provocative communiqués about the People's Republic of China.
Yet, as Buhite shows, grand gestures are not the substance of great foreign policy, and MacArthur's reputation merits critical reassessment.
This is a must read for those interested in diplomatic and military history.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:18/06/2008
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- ISBN:9780742544253
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date:18/06/2008
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- ISBN:9780742544253
