TY - BOOK ID - 143793148 TI - The last Brahmin : Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the making of the cold war PY - 2020 SN - 0300256175 PB - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ambassadors KW - Cold War. KW - Politicians KW - Lodge, Henry Cabot, KW - United States KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143793148 AB - The first biography of a man who was at the center of American foreign policy for a generation For three decades, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as adviser to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, and West Germany. He hailed from a distinguished American family with a record of public service that began in the Washington administration. The experience of World War II—when Lodge became the first sitting senator since the 1860s to resign his seat for military service—dramatically transformed him from isolationist to internationalist, and the Cold War tested his faith in democracy and its ability to project its system of values abroad. Lodge was among the last of his kind: the well-heeled Eastern Establishment Republicans who put duty over partisanship and saw themselves as the hereditary captains of the American state. Using previously unexamined material, historian Luke A. Nichter recounts, for the first time, Lodge’s extraordinary and consequential life. ER -