Addressing the significant impact Senator J. William Fulbright had During the Eisenhower Years
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The beginning of the Cold War and the genesis of the nuclear age forced Presidents Truman and Eisenhower to make tough, savvy decisions that would influence US foreign policy for decades. Senator Fulbright is noted as a key player for his substantial impact on foreign policy decision-making, famous for his stance against Vietnam, but less known for the position he took on the Middle East in the 1950s and how his opinions prevailed.
In "Hope and Destiny: Truman, Eisenhower, Fulbright and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1958," author Dr. Harry Keatts Chenault Jr. examines the foreign policies of President Truman and President Eisenhower and provides a historical account of how these men dealt with serious challenges in the Middle East. These accounts are especially relevant now, due to the current political climate in that section of the world, and Chenault hopes their accomplishments leave a future roadmap for all US political and military leaders.
The book includes a wealth of photographs, charts, and reprints of memos, speeches, and other primary source documents to aid the reading experience.
"I hope my book offers a valuable tool to help understand how events today resonate so soundly from the nation's past," said Chenault. "The legacies that Truman, Eisenhower, and Fulbright left on US foreign policy, and especially in the Middle East, leaves a future roadmap for all US political and military leaders."
Chenault is a Fulbright scholar who has spent time studying Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute at American University at Cairo, as well as studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies on U.S. presidential foreign policy in the Middle East. Additionally, he has also received a Marjorie Kovler Fellowship at the Kennedy Library for International Relations and a Kathryn Davis Fellowship at Middlebury for Arabic He is currently studying in India as a Boren Ambassador through the Boren Fellowship, which funds research and language study proposals by U.S. graduate students in world regions critical to U.S. interests.
"Hope and Destiny: Truman, Eisenhower, Fulbright and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1958"
By Harry Keatts Chenault, Jr., PhD
ISBN: 9781480883031 (softcover); 9781480883048 (hardcover); 9781480883024 (electronic)
Available at Archway Publishing, Amazon and Barnes & Noble
About the author
Harry Keatts Chenault Jr., PhD, a former military officer, lived in the Middle East while studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He earned his PhD in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies on US presidential foreign policy in the Middle East. He was simultaneously awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Egypt studying Arabic and Islamic sciences at American University of Cairo. To learn more, please visit http://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/788940-Hope-and-Destiny.
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