TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuklick,Bruce
TI  - Blind oracles: intellectuals and war from Kennan to Kissinger 
T2  - Princeton paperbacks
SN  - 9781400849468
AV  - JZ148 .B556 2007
PY  - 2007///, 2006
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Intellectuals
KW  - Political activity
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; The social rule of the man of knowledge --; Scientific management and war, 1910-1960 --; Theorists of war, 1945-1953 --; RAND in opposition, 1946-1961 --; Accented and unaccented realism, 1946-1961 --; RAND and the Kennedy administration, 1961-1962 --; Cuba and Nassau, 1962 --; Intellectuals in power, 1961-1966 --; The Kennedy school of government, 1964-1971 --; The Pentagon papers --; Henry Kissinger --; Diplomats on foreign policy, 1976-2001; 2; b
N2  - In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with
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