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The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
By Nichter, Luke A.
- ISBN
- 9780300217803
- Publisher
- Yale Univ.
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Reviewed on October 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
Nichter (hstory, Texas A&M Univ.-Central Texas) is a distinguished scholar specializing in the Nixon Presidency. His biography of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (1902–85) is an essential work when the current Republican Party scarcely resembles Lodge's party of the 1950s. As a moderate Massachusetts Republican, Lodge stood for calibrated governance, bipartisanship, and public service. Those values did not make him saintly, but it did insure a long career without major sca...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
