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Beisner, Robert Lee was born on March 8, 1936 in Lexington, Nebraska, United States. Son of Elmer John and Charlene Day Beisner.
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Historians have long argued about the nature of the changes that occurred in American foreign policy at the turn of the century, and whether those changes represented an abrupt break from the past or the culmination of long-term trends. Beisner addresses these issues by recasting the questions involved, and synthesizes the most useful contributions of both traditional and revisionist historians. From the Old Diplomacy to the New reinterprets the entire period as one in which American foreign policy underwent a fundamental paradigm shift that affected the goals and methods of diplomacy. A commitment to systematic policy and a determination to promote American interests in a dangerous world characterized the "new diplomacy."
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Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era - the decade after World War II when the American Century slipped into high gear. During his vastly influential career, Acheson spearheaded the greatest foreign policy achievements in modern times, ranging from the Marshall Plan to the establishment of NATO. In this acclaimed biography, Robert L. Beisner paints an indelible portrait of one of the key figures of the last half-century. In a book filled with insight based on research in government archives, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Beisner illuminates Acheson's major triumphs, including the highly underrated achievement of converting West Germany and Japan from mortal enemies to prized allies, and does not shy away from examining his missteps. But underlying all his actions, Beisner shows, was a tough-minded determination to outmatch the strength of the Soviet bloc - indeed, to defeat the Soviet Union at every turn. The book also sheds light on Acheson's friendship with Truman - one, a bourbon-drinking Midwesterner with a homespun disposition, the other, a mustachioed Connecticut dandy who preferred perfect martinis. Over six foot tall, with steel blue, "merry, searching eyes" and a "wolfish" grin, Dean Acheson was an unforgettable character - intellectually brilliant, always debonair, and tough as tempered steel. This lustrous portrait of an immensely accomplished and colorful life is the epitome of the biographer's art.
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( America has formed alliances, exchanged diplomats, trad...)
America has formed alliances, exchanged diplomats, traded goods and services, and fought wars with nations on every continent but Antarctica. And people have written books, articles, reports, and papers by the thousands on these subjects. In American Foreign Relations since 1600, the 2002 president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Robert Beisner, has worked with members of SHAFR to compile the most exhaustive survey of writing on American foreign relations ever published. Covering 400 years of American history, his team of editors—all top experts in the field—have referenced and annotated nearly 20,000 published and nonpublished works. It's all here, from the Mayflower Compact to the My Lai massacre, from the War of 1812 to the war on terrorism, from the pre-Revolutionary era to the post-Cold War world.
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Beisner, Robert Lee was born on March 8, 1936 in Lexington, Nebraska, United States. Son of Elmer John and Charlene Day Beisner.
Student, Hastings College, Nebraska, 1956. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1965.
Instructor social science University Chicago, 1962—1963. Instructor history Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1963—1965. From assistant professor to professor emeritus American University, Washington, 1965—1998, professor emeritus, since 1998.
Director general education American University, 1993—1997.
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( America has formed alliances, exchanged diplomats, trad...)
( Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretarie...)
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Member of Organization American Historians, Society of America Historians, Society Historians American Foreign Relations (president 2002-2002), Phi Alpha Theta.
Married Valerie French, March 6, 1976. Children: John Brinton, Katharine Lee, Signe Ann Linscott, John French Allen.