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Woods, Randall Bennett was born on October 10, 1944 in Galveston, Texas, United States. Son of Grady Bennett and Mary Dorothy Stokes Woods.
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J. William Fulbright was the second most successful Oxford-educated politician to come from Arkansas. Author of the Fulbright-Connally resolution that committed the United States to participating in the U.N., and creator of the exchange program that bears his name, Fulbright was the longest serving chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This volume describes the family dynamic, educational process, and environments--Arkansas, Oxford, Washington, D.C.--which produced this remarkable man. It delves into his complex attitude toward race and details Fulbright's role in the civil rights movement. The narrative includes the major international events of the Cold War era--the Suez Crisis, the U-2 incident, the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis, Vietnam, the ABM controversies, the Arab-Israeli conflict--and Fulbright's role in them. Woods explains Fulbright's shift from a champion of executive power in foreign affairs to a defender of congressional prerogatives.
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(Randall Woods addresses the major themes characterizing t...)
Randall Woods addresses the major themes characterizing the American experience from the close of World War II. Woods' accessible analysis of the Cold War and Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, as well as other great changes that led to major realignments of American life, clarify postwar American history. Although this book emphasizes political history, it also covers cultural matters and socio-economic problems such as the growth of dramatic new patterns of immigration and migration, the development of the "counterculture", television and the internet, the interstate highway system, rock and roll, and the exploration of space.
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(Between 1941 and 1946, in response to the devastation cau...)
Between 1941 and 1946, in response to the devastation caused by World War II, memories of the Great Depression, and the prospect of Soviet expansion, a group of politicians, diplomats, and economists in the United States and Great Britain sought to repair the ruined economies of Europe and secure economic prosperity for America. Their program, which became known as multilateralism, called for reduced quotas on imports, lowered tariffs, the abandonment of currency exchange controls, and economic decision making by international bodies. Randall Woods explores this attempt to create an interdependent world economy and sets it against the broader political and strategic backdrop of the period. In the United States, multilateralism attracted New Deal liberals because it proposed to help not only the established economic interests but traditionally disadvantaged groups such as farmers and industrial workers as well. Moderate socialists in Britain also lent their support to a liberalized trading system, as did many conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic, believing that the program would preserve some degree of free enterprise in the international economy. Unfortunately for its disciples, Woods argues, multilateralism was so modified by the forces of isolationism and economic nationalism--and by bureaucratic politics in the United States--that it failed to achieve its economic and strategic goals. The international economy that emerged after World War II was not an equitable partnership and merely finalized the fifty-year process by which the United States supplanted Great Britain as the arbiter of Western Capitalism. In the end, modified multilateralism hampered rather than facilitated the free flow of goods and capital, and it did little to promote social democracy.
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Woods, Randall Bennett was born on October 10, 1944 in Galveston, Texas, United States. Son of Grady Bennett and Mary Dorothy Stokes Woods.
Bachelor, University Texas, Austin, 1967. Master of Arts, University Texas, Austin, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, Austin, 1971—2001.
Instructor University Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1971, assistant professor, 1972, associate professor, 1979, professor, 1983, Cooper chair, 1988, distinguished professor history, since 1994, associate dean Fulbright college arts and science, 1979—1982, dean Fulbright college arts and science, 1999—2002. E-6 staff sergeant United States Army, 1969-1975, 142 Artillery, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
(Between 1941 and 1946, in response to the devastation cau...)
(Randall Woods addresses the major themes characterizing t...)
(Randall Woods addresses the major themes characterizing t...)
(J. William Fulbright was the second most successful Oxfor...)
Member Fayetteville School Board, 1982—1986. Member of Society Historians American Foreign Relations (president 2006).
Married Rhoda Margaret Lannen, June 18, 1966. Children: Nicole Woods Olmstead, Jeffrey Randall.