Essays on a Half-Century

W. W. Rostow, Austin, Texas, USA.

• Preface -- Introduction: Notes on a Lively Half-Century -- The American Diplomatic Revolution -- Marx Was a City Boy -- The Fallacy of the Fertile Gondolas and a Reply -- The Long Run and the Short Run -- Some Lessons of History for Africa -- The Planning of Foreign Policy -- The Challenge of Democracy in Developing Nations -- The Sharing of the Good Life -- The Anglo-American Situation (1969) -- The Irrelevance of the Relevant -- An Historian Looks at History: 1970 -- The Politics of Arms Control or How to Make Nuclear Weapons Wither Away -- For East and West, Avenues, Not Ruts -- Two Items About LBJ -- Foreign Policy: The President, Congress, and Public Opinion -- What Economic Path for Western Europe? -- Charting a Course Toward 1988