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The World Could Have Been Different: William Bullitt's Attempts to Change the Twentieth Century

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The World Could Have Been Different: William Bullitt's Attempts to Change the Twentieth Century
19.99 €
William Bullitt was the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union and France. He was also a true cosmopolitan, the author of two novels and an expert on American politics, Russian history, and French high society. A friend of Freud, Bullitt co-wrote a sensational biography of President Wilson. As a diplomat, Bullitt negotiated with Lenin and Stalin, Churchill and Goering. His plan for the dismemberment of Russia was accepted by Lenin but disapproved by Wilson. His plan to build an American embassy on Sparrow Hills was initially supported and then closed by Stalin. Nevertheless, Bullitt managed to take over Spaso House and host a reception there, described by Bulgakov as a ball at Satan's; Woland in The Master and Margarita is written as a grateful portrait of Bullitt. The first American ambassador to Soviet Moscow had affairs with Bolshoi ballerinas and taught polo to Red Army cavalrymen, but his affluent Russian life ruined his engagement to Roosevelt's personal secretary. He ended the war as a major in the French army, and his students led American diplomacy during the Cold War. The book is based on archival documents from Bullitt's personal collection at Yale University, many of which are used in literature for the first time.
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