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Dissent in the State Department! The Dissent Papers The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond  Hannah Gurman Order Your Copy Now and Save 30%! We'd like to offer you 30% off orders of The Dissent Papers. To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code DISGU. Click on the "apply" button and your savings will be calculated. The e-book version of The Dissent Papers is available wherever e-books are sold! Read the Introduction   "An outstanding account of dissent in the State Department since the Second World War. I know of no other work that treats the issue in this synoptic manner. The volume's later chapters present new material in a particularly subtle and provocative way. The book is fresh, unique, and stimulating." - Frank Ninkovich, author of Global Dawn: The Cultural Foundation of American Imperialism, 1865-1890 (Read more reviews) Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.S. diplomats to American foreign policy in the latter half of the twentieth century. During America's reign as a dominant world power, U.S. presidents and senior foreign policy officials largely ignored or rejected their diplomats' reports, memos, and telegrams, especially when they challenged key policies relating to the Cold War, China, and the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. The Dissent Papers recovers these diplomats' invaluable perspective and their commitment to the transformative power of diplomatic writing. Gurman showcases the work of diplomats whose opposition enjoyed some success. George Kennan, John Stewart Service, John Paton Davies, George Ball, and John Brady Kiesling all caught the attention of sitting presidents and policymakers, achieving temporary triumphs yet ultimately failing to change the status quo. Gurman follows the circulation of documents within the State Department, the National Security Council, the C.I.A., and the military, and she details the rationale behind "The Dissent Channel," instituted by the State Department in the 1970s, to both encourage and contain dissent. Advancing an alternative narrative of modern U.S. history, she connects the erosion of the diplomatic establishment and the weakening of the diplomatic writing tradition to larger political and ideological trends while, at the same time, foreshadowing the resurgent significance of diplomatic writing in the age of Wikileaks. ORDER THE BOOK     $45.00 $31.50 (with discount code DISGU) / £31.00  cloth  296 pages  11 illus.  E-book: $35.99 For more titles in: U.S History International Relations     FOLLOW Columbia University Press:

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