Bernard J Firestone

Biographic Data

ID5831365
NAMEBernard J Firestone
GIVEN NAMESBernard J
FAMILY NAMEFirestone
SIGNATUREFIRESTONE B J
AFFILIATIONSHofstra University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • The Removal of Unef and the Limits of UN Diplomacy

    Open AccessBernard J Firestone, Bernard FirestoneARTICLEDiplomatic History2019

    In mid-May 1967 United Nations Secretary-General U Thant quickly acceded to Egyptian demands that he withdraw the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) from its positions on the border between Israel and the United Arab Republic (UAR), a border upon which it had stood since 1956. At a time of growing political tension in the region, the removal of UNEF left the two countries’ military forces facing each other directly. Three weeks later, when war…

  • Failed Mediation

    Bernard J FirestoneARTICLEDiplomatic History2013

    U.N. Secretary General U. Thant (1961–1971), a vocal and persistent critic of the American war effort in Vietnam, attempted, with little success, to initiate negotiations to end the war. His efforts included public calls for negotiating formats that would include all the parties to the conflict, such as a reconvening of the Geneva Conference, and behind-the-scenes diplomacy to produce direct negotiations between the United States and North Vietna…

  • In the Grip of Watergate

    Susan M Hartmann, Bernard J Firestone et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1993

    These five volumes demonstrate the tenacious hold of Watergate-over the policies and politics of the Nixon and Ford administrations, over the collective memory of American elites, and over scholars who write about the 1970s. Historians have rightfully resisted Richard Nixon's efforts at rehabilitation, and they have properly emphasized the defining nature of Watergate in American political history.' Yet, the powerful attraction of Watergate has l…

  • Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power

    Melvin Small, Bernard J Firestone et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Uses of Power. Ed. by Bernard J. Firestone and Robert C. Vogt. (Westport: Greenwood, 1988. xx + 418 pp. $49.95.) Get access Melvin Small Melvin Small Wayne State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1327–1328, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936711 Published: 01 March 1990

  • Danger and Survival

    Bernard J Firestone, Mcgeorge BundyARTICLEJournal of American History1989Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years. By McGeorge Bundy. (New York: Random House, 1988. xvi + 735 pp. $24.95.) Get access Bernard J. Firestone Bernard J. Firestone Hofstra University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Page 986, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936540 Published: 01 December 1989

  • The Quest for Nuclear Stability

    Anthony R DeLuca, Bernard J FirestoneARTICLEThe Russian Review1983

  • The Quest for Nuclear Stability

    J Samuel Walker, Bernard J FirestoneARTICLEJournal of American History1983

    Journal Article The Quest for Nuclear Stability: John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union. By Bernard J. Firestone. (Westport: Greenwood, 1982. x + 176 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50.) Get access J. Samuel Walker J. Samuel Walker U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 1036–1037, https://doi.org/10.2307/19…