{"product_id":"concept-and-controversy","title":"Concept and Controversy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow has helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues since World War II. In this thought-provoking memoir, he takes a retrospective look at eleven key policy problems with which he has been involved to show how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call \"the future.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe issues that Rostow discusses are these:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe use of air power in Europe in the 1940s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWorking toward a united Europe during the Cold War\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe death of Joseph Stalin and early attempts to end the Cold War\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEisenhower's Open Skies policy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe debate over foreign aid in the 1950s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe economic revival of Korea\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEfforts to control inflation in the 1960s\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWaiting for democracy in China\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Vietnam War and Southeast Asian policy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eU.S. urban problems in disadvantaged neighborhoods\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe challenges posed by declining population in the twenty-first century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn discussing how he and others have worked to meet these challenges, Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53530025787759,"sku":"9780292726192","price":375.73,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0292726198.jpg?v=1790358885","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/concept-and-controversy","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}