Fulbright: A Biography

by Randall Bennett Woods

Book Overview

J. William Fulbright is the author of the Fulbright-Connally resolution which committed the United States to participating in the UN. Creator of the exchange programme that bears his name, Fulbright was the longest-serving and most powerful chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This volume describes the family dynamic, educational process and environments - Arkansas, Oxford, Washington, DC - which produced this remarkable man. It delves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521482623
• ISBN13: 9780521482622
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 734 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

An excellent biography.

I rarely read biographies, but purchased this one because I know the author, and after drinking a few glasses of wine at a book-signing reception for him, felt compelled to do so. I was fully prepared to be bored by a dry historical biography, but was surprised to find an engaging book instead.