
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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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
- Cover
- Author Notes
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: In Search of Andreas Papandreou
- 1 A Prodigious Youth
- 2 The American Years
- 3 Return to Ithaca
- 4 The Leap
- 5 First Victory
- 6 Breaking In
- 7 The National Question
- 8 A Fateful Dynamic
- 9 Worsening Malaise
- 10 The Path to the People
- 11 ASPIDA
- 12 Collision Course
- 13 Apostasy
- 14 New Realities
- 15 Andreas Rising
- 16 Pivot Point
- 17 The Pathos of Change
- 18 Derailment
- 19 Descent
- 20 Free Fall
- 21 End Game
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography