05-12-2012, 02:26 AM
David:
Thanks for your praise of the book. Many people have said they want to read it twice. Wow.
In comparison, I barely got through Waldron once. And i wanted to vomit.
Yes, both the Dulles brothers were high up in the CFR. If I recall, Allen was actually on the board for decades. I think you can make a good argument that Ike was co opted at Columbia.
As per Kennan, a very interesting figure. .I once did a research paper on him in graduate school.
In examining his work overall, I was never able to come to a firm conclusion as to:
1. If he really started tehe Cold War himself on our side
2. Or if his words were deliberately manipulated by others for purposes he did not really mean.
Its not an easy argument on either side. The guy spent a large part of his career saying the COld War had gotten out of control and that Germany should be reunited--in the fifties!
But I was never able to decide it this was something he felt after the fact, or whether he was a really a near tragic figure like Oppenheimer.
Thanks for your praise of the book. Many people have said they want to read it twice. Wow.
In comparison, I barely got through Waldron once. And i wanted to vomit.
Yes, both the Dulles brothers were high up in the CFR. If I recall, Allen was actually on the board for decades. I think you can make a good argument that Ike was co opted at Columbia.
As per Kennan, a very interesting figure. .I once did a research paper on him in graduate school.
In examining his work overall, I was never able to come to a firm conclusion as to:
1. If he really started tehe Cold War himself on our side
2. Or if his words were deliberately manipulated by others for purposes he did not really mean.
Its not an easy argument on either side. The guy spent a large part of his career saying the COld War had gotten out of control and that Germany should be reunited--in the fifties!
But I was never able to decide it this was something he felt after the fact, or whether he was a really a near tragic figure like Oppenheimer.