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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, 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 not by Wilson. His plan for building an American embassy on Sparrow Hills was first supported and then closed by Stalin. Bullitt nevertheless managed to get hold of Spaso House and hold a reception there, described by Bulgakov as Satan’s ball; 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 cavalrymen, and his cheerful Russian life ruined his engagement to Roosevelt's personal secretary. He ended the war as a major in the French army, and his students headed 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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