Liberal Missionary: The 'Whole' Dean Rusk

Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad
By Thomas W. Zeiler (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000.
Pp. vi, 404. $26 cloth.)

“Zeiler has begun the process of reducing Vietnam to a sensible perspective and giving Rusk his due for long and courageous service during hard times.” [FULL TEXT]

The Man in the Street and Uncle Sam and the World, Redux
By DAVID W. THORNTON
Nov 8

Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
By Douglas C. Foyle (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 377. $24 paper.)

“But Foyle does far more than examine personalities and recount events seminal in defining the character and pattern of the American response to the multidimensional threat of Communism. In the best tradition of social science, he constructs and tests a model to analyze and explain the connections between public opinion and executive behavior.” [FULL TEXT]