Cecil B Currey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1557857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecil B Currey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecil B |
| FAMILY NAME | Currey |
| SIGNATURE | CURREY C B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bunker's Advice Was Bunk
Author Schaffer has here written a filiopietistic, uncritical book. It is, however, a usable compendium of the life of Ellsworth Bunker and of the diplomatic chores for which he was selected time and again. We learn how he lived the life of a “golden youth” (p. 6), how he studied at Yale, how he eventually became a member of the East Coast “old boys” network (p. 46). Throughout his life he met many influential men who served him as mentors and ad…
Southern Service on Land and Sea
General William S. Harney
Guerrilla Warfare
Victory at Any Cost
The Company They Keep
Memorialized on screen and idealized in the media, the Green Berets are the most famous and least understood unit in the American military. Who are these elite soldiers? How do they train and what are their operations really like? An anthropologist and the wife of a Special Forces member, Anna Simons was allowed access to a single company for over a year, following the group on routines, special missions, and even their off-duty time. She explore…
War in America to 1775
Edward Lansdale
Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. By Cecil B. Currey. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. xviii + 430 pp. $24.95.) and The CIA and American Democracy. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xii + 338 pp. $25.00.) Get access Robert D. Schulzinger Robert D. Schulzinger University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1…
Code Number 72
Road to Revolution
The Company They Keep
Memorialized on screen and idealized in the media, the Green Berets are the most famous and least understood unit in the American military. Who are these elite soldiers? How do they train and what are their operations really like? An anthropologist and the wife of a Special Forces member, Anna Simons was allowed access to a single company for over a year, following the group on routines, special missions, and even their off-duty time. She explore…
Road to Revolution
Code Number 72
Edward Lansdale
Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. By Cecil B. Currey. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. xviii + 430 pp. $24.95.) and The CIA and American Democracy. By Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. xii + 338 pp. $25.00.) Get access Robert D. Schulzinger Robert D. Schulzinger University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1…
War in America to 1775
Guerrilla Warfare
Victory at Any Cost
The Company They Keep
Memorialized on screen and idealized in the media, the Green Berets are the most famous and least understood unit in the American military. Who are these elite soldiers? How do they train and what are their operations really like? An anthropologist and the wife of a Special Forces member, Anna Simons was allowed access to a single company for over a year, following the group on routines, special missions, and even their off-duty time. She explore…
General William S. Harney
Southern Service on Land and Sea
Bunker's Advice Was Bunk
Author Schaffer has here written a filiopietistic, uncritical book. It is, however, a usable compendium of the life of Ellsworth Bunker and of the diplomatic chores for which he was selected time and again. We learn how he lived the life of a “golden youth” (p. 6), how he studied at Yale, how he eventually became a member of the East Coast “old boys” network (p. 46). Throughout his life he met many influential men who served him as mentors and ad…
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