Joseph M. Jones (1908–1990)
Autor de The Fifteen Weeks: An Inside Account of the Genesis of the Marshall Plan
Joseph M. Jones es Joseph Marion Jones (1). Para otros autores llamados Joseph Marion Jones, ver la página de desambiguación.
Sobre El Autor
Joseph Marion Jones, a member of the State Department staff responsible for giving birth to the Marshall Plan and for defining the Policy of Containment, has been a fellow of Yale University's Department of Political Science, an editor of Fortune, and, most recently, a special consultant to the mostrar más United Nations. mostrar menos
Obras de Joseph M. Jones
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Jones, Joseph M.
- Nombre legal
- Jones, Joseph Marion
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1908-10-29
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1990-08-09
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 23
- Popularidad
- #537,598
- Valoración
- 3.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 10
- Idiomas
- 1
Jones was an employee of the State Department at the time, though he includes almost no first person narration of events. The prose is dry and a bit official—lists of attendees of important meetings take up a good percentage of the text—and there is some hammering in of the momentous nature of the decisions, but it is illuminating to see how things played out on a day by day basis and to know of the opposition–from right-wing isolationists like Senator Taft as well as left wing accommodationists such as Former Vice President Wallace—to decisions that led to the current state of affairs: the US as a superpower that exercises global influence through money and military force.
Jones basically describes the dawn of the Cold War not as a struggle between Freedom and Totalitarianism but as a reboot of the Great Game—the centuries old jockeying for control of Asian and Middle Eastern resources—with America serving as Britain’s replacement, and the Soviet Union standing in for Czarist Russia. Recent events in Georgia show that the game is still afoot.… (más)