was a liberal Democratic American diplomat and politician from Connecticut
Bowles wrote several books including Africa's Challenge to America (1956), Ideas, People and Peace (1958), The Makings of a Just Society (1963), A View From New Delhi: Selected Speeches and Writings (1969), Promises to Keep: My Years in Public Life (1971), Ideas, People and Peace (1974) and Conscience of a Liberal: Selected Writings and Speeches (1975).