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This multidimensional volume covers Fulbright's development as a national and global voice on foreign relations, as he wrestled with the political controversies of the US South during the civil rights movement, worked with and challenged executive power, and shaped the Fulbright program for educational exchange.
About the author
Alessandro Brogi is professor of history at the University of Arkansas. He is the author of
L'Italia e l'egemonia americana nel Mediterraneo,
A Question of Self-Esteem: The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy,
1944--1958, and C
onfronting America: The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy.
Giles Scott-Smith holds the Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History at Leiden University and is academic director of the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including
Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad and
Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War: Agents, Activities, and Networks. He serves on the editorial boards of the
Journal of Contemporary History and
New Global Studies, and he is the founding editor of
Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society.
David J. Snyder is clinical associate professor of history, global studies, and US foreign relations at the University of South Carolina. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals such as
Diplomatic History and the
Journal of Cold War Studies, as well as numerous anthologies. He is coeditor of
Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s and
Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad.
Summary
This multidimensional volume covers Fulbright's development as a national and global voice on foreign relations, as he wrestled with the political controversies of the US South during the civil rights movement, worked with and challenged executive power, and shaped the Fulbright program for educational exchange.
