Andreas Papandreou
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Andreas Papandreou

The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Andreas Papandreou

The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick

About this book

Greece in the 1960s produced one of Europe's arguably most controversial politicians of the post-war era. The contrarian politics of Andreas Papandreou grew out of his conflict laden re-engagement with Greece in the 1960s. Returning to Athens after 20 years in the US where he had been a rising member of the American liberal establishment, Papandreou forged a social reform-oriented, nationalist politics in Greece that ultimately put him at odds with the US foreign policy establishment and made him the primary target of a pro-American military coup in 1967. Venerated by his admirers and despised by his detractors with equal passion, the Harvard-educated Papandreou left in his wake no clear-cut answer to the question of who he was and what he stood for. Andreas Papandreou chronicles the events, struggles and ideas that defined the man's dramatic, intrigue-filled transformation from Kennedy-era modernizer to Cold War maverick. In the process the book examines the explosive interplay of character and circumstance that generated Papandreou's contentious, but powerfully consequential politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author Notes
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface: In Search of Andreas Papandreou
  9. 1 A Prodigious Youth
  10. 2 The American Years
  11. 3 Return to Ithaca
  12. 4 The Leap
  13. 5 First Victory
  14. 6 Breaking In
  15. 7 The National Question
  16. 8 A Fateful Dynamic
  17. 9 Worsening Malaise
  18. 10 The Path to the People
  19. 11 ASPIDA
  20. 12 Collision Course
  21. 13 Apostasy
  22. 14 New Realities
  23. 15 Andreas Rising
  24. 16 Pivot Point
  25. 17 The Pathos of Change
  26. 18 Derailment
  27. 19 Descent
  28. 20 Free Fall
  29. 21 End Game
  30. Epilogue
  31. Notes
  32. Select Bibliography