Special Relationships - Hardcover

Brandon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689115881 ISBN 13: 9780689115882

Publisher: Scribner, 1989

The author, a journalist specializing in foreign relations, describes some of his greatest stories and assesses U.S. foreign policy and leadership

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From Publishers Weekly:

Brandon ( The Retreat of American Power ) here recalls close friendships, working relationships and occasional hostile contacts that marked his 40 years as a Washington correspondent, mostly for London's Sunday Times. His portraits of Truman, Acheson, De Gaulle, Macmillan, Kennedy and Nixon, among others, are incisive. He also offers trenchant observations ("Americans need to be scared out of their wits to shoulder the burdens of their destiny") and a benevolent appraisal of Washington, D.C., as a cultural world capital. He tells us that he was in Cuba when Soviet missiles arrived there, was lunching with Richard Helms when the CIA chief first heard of the Watergate burglary. His best passages include an illuminating discourse on Henry Kissinger's character and achievements, along with what may be the pithiest synopsis yet of the Reagan presidency. Photos.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

In this memoir Brandon, a veteran foreign correspondent for the Sunday London Times , details the special relationships that have governed Anglo-American, postwar diplomacy. Brandon gracefully recounts the events of the American political scene and its leaders, including his own special relationship with President Kennedy. Like Theodore White's In Search of History (Harper, 1978), Brandon incorporates many humorous, poignant anecdotes. In addition, he contrasts the chaotic workings of Congress with that of the more structured, orderly Parliament. Especially good at re-creating the fears and events of the early Cold War, Brandon's memoir will delight Anglophiles and students of modern American history. Karl Helicher, Wolfsohn Memorial Lib., King of Prussia, Pa.
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