Research Catalog

Title

Power and principle : memoirs of the national security advisor, 1977-1981 / Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Author

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1983.

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Description

xvii, 587 p., [24] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Contains primary source documents.

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Power and Morality Collection at Harvard Business School

Subject

• Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017
• Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
• Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-2017
• Universidad Sergio Arboleda
• 1977-1981
• 1900-2000
• Statesmen > United States > Biography
• National security > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > 1977-1981

Genre/Form

• Autobiographie 1977-1981.
• Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Prologue. 1. Relating to key players ; 2. Power and policy -- Part I. Comprehensive initiatives. Chronological chart ; 3. Not Geneva, but Jerusalem ; 4. Good intentions at high cost ; 5. SALT without linkage -- Part II. Major turning points. Chronological chart ; 6. "The United States has made up its mind" ; 7. Uphill to Camp David ; 8. The price of friendship ; 9. Neither dialogue nor deterrence ; 10. The fall of the Shah -- Part III. Progress and frustration. Chronological chart ; 11. Toward a strategic relationship ; 12. The Carter doctrine ; 13. Lives and national interests -- Conclusions. 14. The past : a critical appraisal ; 15. The future : power and principle in American foreign policy -- Annex I. President Carter's instructions to Zbigniew Brzezinski for his mission to China. May 17, 1978 -- Annex II. Reflections for the President (Weekly reports) -- Annex III. The NSC : staff and organization, 1977-81.

ISBN

0374236631 :

LCCN

^^^83001598^//r85

OCLC

• 9280982
• SCSB-10108973

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library