Ralph Bunche: An American LifeW. W. Norton & Company, 1993 - 496 páginas From modest beginnings, Bunche rose to become one of the architects of the UN and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This fascinating portrayal shows how Bunche's racial consciousness and pride were forged and how they sustained him through a lifetime's battles with prejudice. Photos. |
Contenido
Preface | 11 |
Prologue | 21 |
Beginnings | 23 |
UCLA Harvard and Howard | 37 |
Howard and Beyond | 49 |
England 1937 | 64 |
Africa and Asia | 72 |
An American Dilemma | 81 |
The Loyalty Question | 243 |
Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy | 257 |
Suez and the First Peacekeeping Force | 264 |
Lebanon 1958 and the Middle East | 291 |
The Congo | 299 |
The Loss of Hammarskjöld | 336 |
U Thant and the End of the Katanga Secession | 348 |
Yemen | 361 |
Prelude to War | 92 |
World War II Washington and the OSS | 101 |
The Road to San Francisco | 111 |
Building the United Nations | 125 |
Palestine | 139 |
With the Mediator in Palestine | 153 |
The Acting Mediator in Paris | 186 |
Armistice Talks in RhodesEgypt and Israel | 199 |
Armistice TalksJordan and Israel | 213 |
The End of the Mediation and the Nobel Prize | 221 |
Anticlimax | 233 |
Cyprus and Kashmir | 368 |
Vietnam | 380 |
A Darkening Glass | 393 |
The SixDay War | 400 |
Winding Down | 417 |
Bahrain | 426 |
Civil Rights and Race in the United States | 430 |
Ending | 454 |
Notes | 459 |
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