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Article: Fulbright: A Biography.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 16, 1995
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FULBRIGHT: A BIOGRAPHY. By Randall Bennett Woods. Cambridge University Press; 711 pages; $29.95 and Pounds 30
THE primitive malice of Senator Jesse Helms, following the genteel vagueness of Senator Claiborne Pell, makes it hard to recall that not terribly long ago the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was a sophisticated and constructive participant in making America's foreign policy. William Fulbright, a senator for Arkansas from 1945 to 1975 and chairman of the committee from 1959, is the subject of a perceptive, very full biography by Randall Bennett Woods, an author who has the advantage of teaching at the University of Arkansas and being ...