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Rotter, Andrew Jon was born on June 13, 1953 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Of all of the wars in which the U.S. has been engaged, none has been as divisive as the conflict in Vietnam. The repercussions of this unsettling episode in American history still resonate in our society. Although it ended more than 30 years ago, the Vietnam War continues to fascinate and trouble Americans. The third edition of Light at the End of the Tunnel gives a full overview of the conflict.
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Comrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relationship between the United States and the newly independent India of Jawaharlal Nehru from a unique perspective―that of culture, broadly defined. In a departure from the usual way of doing diplomatic history, Andrew J. Rotter chose culture as his jumping-off point because, he says, "Like the rest of us, policymakers and diplomats do not shed their values, biases, and assumptions at their office doors. They are creatures of culture, and their attitudes cannot help but shape the policy they make." To define those attitudes, Rotter consults not only government documents and the memoirs of those involved in the events of the day, but also literature, art, and mass media. "An advertisement, a photograph, a cartoon, a film, and a short story," he finds, "tell us in their own ways about relations between nations as surely as a State Department memorandum does."While expanding knowledge about the creation and implementation of democracy, Rotter carries his analysis across the categories of race, class, gender, religion, and culturally infused practices of governance, strategy, and economics.Americans saw Indians as superstitious, unclean, treacherous, lazy, and prevaricating. Indians regarded Americans as arrogant, materialistic, uncouth, profane, and violent. Yet, in spite of these stereotypes, Rotter notes the mutual recognition of profound similarities between the two groups; they were indeed "comrades at odds."
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( What path led Americans to Vietnam? Why and how did the...)
What path led Americans to Vietnam? Why and how did the United States become involved in this conflict? Drawing on materials from published and unpublished sources in America and Great Britain, historian Andrew Rotter uncovers and analyzes the surprisingly complex reasons for America's fateful decision to provide economic and military aid to the nations of Southeast Asia in May 1950.
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Rotter, Andrew Jon was born on June 13, 1953 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
Bachelor in History, Cornell Univercity, 1975; Master of Arts in History, Stanford University, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy in History, Stanford University, 1981.
Instructor, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 1979; assistant professor, California State University, Chico, 1980-1981; assistant professor, St. Mary's College California, 1981-1984, 85-86; visiting assistant professor, Colgate University, 1986-1987; assistant professor, Colgate University, 1988-1990; associate professor, Colgate University, since 1990; assistant professor, Vanderbilt University, 1987-1988. Referee Cornell Univercity Press, St. Martin's Press. Honors examiner Swarthmore College, 1993.
( What path led Americans to Vietnam? Why and how did the...)
( What path led Americans to Vietnam? Why and how did the...)
(Comrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relati...)
(Of all of the wars in which the U.S. has been engaged, no...)
Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, Society for Historians of America Foreign Relations (vice president 2009).
Married Padma A. Kaimal, June 24, 1984. Children: Sophie, Phoebe.