Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals.

Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Individuals, Narratives, and Diplomatic History -- 1. Howard Jones Toward a More Perfect Union Lincoln and the Death of Slavery -- 2. Eugene P. Trani and Donald E. Davis A Tale of Two Kennans American-Russian Relations in the Twentieth Century -- 3. Richard H. Bradford Our Man in Managua Lawrence Dennis and the 1926 Nicaraguan Crisis -- 4. William Kamman A Friendly Problem Washington's Assessment of Anastasio Somoza García -- 5. J. Garry Clifford and Theodore A. Wilson Blundering on the Brink, 1941 FDR and the 203-202 Vote Reconsidered -- 6. Ross Gregory America and Saudi Arabia, Act I The Conference of Franklin D. Roosevelt and King Ibn Saud in February 1945 -- 7. William B. Pickett Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair A Forty-Six-Year Retrospective -- 8. Charles M. Dobbs Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, and the China Question -- 9. Nick Cullather Scenes of Disaster Johnson, Nixon, and the Dramatic Uses of Famine -- 10. Miriam Joyce Washington and Doha The Beginnings, 1971-1974 -- 11. Stephen Vaughn Cinema and National Defense Another Look at Ronald Reagan and Hollywood -- 12. Terry H. Anderson Revisionism George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Origins of the Iraq War -- 13. James Goode Crisis without End The United States and Iran from Truman to Bush -- 14. Thomas H. Buckley Clinton's Wilsonian Military Interventions A Critique -- 15. Arnold A. Offner Harry S. Truman, George W. Bush, and the Perils of Regime Change -- 16. J. Garry Clifford The Young Bob Ferrell From Yale to Indiana -- 17. Lawrence Kaplan Robert H. Ferrell An Appreciation -- Robert H. Ferrell's Ph.D. Students -- About the Contributors -- Index.