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Mankato-born Tom Hughes' life and service as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, in the US State Department, and as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, providing a contemporaneous perspective on such major events as the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the CIA's Operation Mongoose against the Castro regime, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, and the elections of the 1960s

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Beginner Boy -- Teacher's Pet -- Student Federalist -- With Bowles and Humphrey -- Bowles in Congress -- The 1960 Presidential Election -- The New Frontier -- Intelligence and Covert Operations -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Diplomacy -- The Overthrow of Diem -- The Gulf of Tonkin Crisis -- The 1964 Vice Presidency -- The Humphrey-Hughes Memo -- Point of No Return -- Speaking Out -- The Most Turbulent Year -- London -- Carnegie: The House That Hughes Built -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Dorothy and Dad -- 2 Secular Humanism at Fieldston -- 3 Harvard in Three Years -- 4 An American at Oxford -- 5 Allison -- 6 Mobilizing for War -- 7 Controlling the Atom -- 8 Birth of the Marshall Plan, 1947-1948 -- 9 The Marshall Plan in Action, 1949-1950 -- 10 NATO: From Treaty to Alliance -- 11 London: A Respite -- 12 Business School Professor, 1955-1960 -- 13 The Alliance for Progress and JFK Adviser -- 14 Ambassador to Brazil -- PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS -- 15 Assistant Secretary -- 16 Johns Hopkins President -- 17 What Now? -- 18 Elder Statesman -- 19 Going Gently -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography of Lincoln Gordon's Scholarly Writings -- Index.