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A collection of interviews, conducted by the author, of 45 successful American entrepreneurs

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION STANDS AS A UNIQUE FIGURE IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS. HIS OFFICE COMBINES ELEMENTS OF TRADITIONAL ALLIANCE POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL ADMINISTRATION, AND MULTINATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN A MANNER NOT SEEN ELSEWHERE IN THE ARENA OF GLOBAL POLITICS. THIS ARTICLE IS AN EXPLORATION OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF NATO.

List of acronyms and abbreviations -- A career in preparation and execution -- The professional foundation -- Professional planning -- Goodpaster and the creation of NATO/SHAPE -- Solarium: the articulation of a national posture -- The "new look" -- Goodpaster with Eisenhower -- Presidential staff secretary and counselor -- A functional national security system -- National defense writ large -- Eisenhower's health crises -- The U-2 and overflights -- Arrival at the top -- Deputy commander and commander-designate in VIet Nam -- As NATO Supreme Allied Commander -- Returning to West Point as Superintendent -- Conclusions: the soldier-scholar in the national security policy process -- Afterword -- Appendix: contributions to public and voluntary service

This book offers a biography of the most glamorous and powerful NATO Supreme Commander of the Cold War, General Lauris Norstad, as both a "nuclear" general and an "international" general. His primary goal was to keep the Alliance together as he accommodated British and French nuclear ambitions while forestalling the same in West Germany. He also was at the center of the political/military maneuverings over Berlin and the Soviet attempt to blackmail the West into recognizing East Germany, all of which culminated in the building of the infamous "Wall