Contents - 8[-]Acknowledgments - 10[-]Introduction - 12[-]CH1. Organizing the West: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and de Gaulle's -Tripartite� Memorandum Proposal, 1958-1962 - 26[-]CH2. Whose Kind of -Europe�? Kennedy's Tug of War With de Gaulle About the Common Market, 1961-1962 - 84[-]CH3. The Clash: De Gaulle's Rejection of Kennedy's Atlantic Partnership, 1962-1963 - 142[-]CH4. The Demise of the Last Atlantic Project: LBJ and De Gaulle's Attack on the Multilateral Force, 1963-1965 - 196[-]CH5. De Gaulle Throws Down the Gauntlet: LBJ and the Crisis in NATO, 1965-1967 - 250[-]CH6. Grand Designs Go Bankrupt: From Divergence to Accommodation, 1967-1969 - 308[-]Conclusion. Atlantis Lost: The Reception of Gaullism in the United States - 356[-]Notes - 380[-]Bibliography - 500[-]Abbreviations - 536[-]Index of persons - 540[-]Curriculum vitae - 548
Sebastian Reyn is Chief Strategist of the Netherlands' Ministry of Defense and author of Allies or Aliens?: George W. Bush and the Transatlantic Crisis in Historical Perspective (the Netherlands Atlantic Association, 2004).
Throughout, Reyn's focus is on writing a detailed history of these various issues. But it would be wrong to think that he has produced merely a dry, traditional diplomatic history. [�] The result is an impressive level of complexity, out of which Reyn draws two sets of conclusions. At the end of the book, Reyn points to his grand themes: the clash between de Gaulle's conservatism and the generally liberal America of the 1960s; the lack of leverage of even such a powerful hegemon as the United States in this period; the fact that, while de Gaulle shifted European perceptions of America, his actions also altered the American view of the 'Old World', particularly by shattering the pre-1963 Atlanticist vision [�] Overall, this is an excellent study which deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in US foreign policy of the period. - STEVEN CASEY London School of Economics and Political Science in English Historical Review, cxxvii. 526 (June 2012)[-][-]-My own view, which I will express to the Princeton Press, is that this is the most comprehensive study of De Gaulle's relationship with the U.S., and indeed of Gaullist foreign policy, that exists. It is a splendidly documented work. I look forward to seeing it published in English. I also believe that it ought to be published in French.�- Ezra Suleiman, IBM Professor of International Studies, Professor of Politics, and Director of the Program in European Politics and Society at Princeton University[-][-]-Sebastian Reyn's Atlantis Lost is the fruit of many years of research and reflection, and it shows. The book is the most insightful, balanced, and comprehensive treatment of U.S. policy toward Gaullist France, and diverse American reactions to -le grand Charles,� that we are likely to see. One of the author's main virtues is his knowledge of America's foreign policy traditions and outlooks, allowing him to show how and why figures like Walter Lippmann, Dean Rusk, and Richard Nixon reacted to de Gaulle's critique of U.S. policy as the -will to power cloaked in idealism� in different ways. As Reyn shows, de Gaulle's challenge exposed the limits and marked the decline of the American notion of an -Atlantic Community.� But the legacy of those years also included NATO's adoption of East-West d�tente as an official objective. This was an early but important milestone on the road to the end of the -Yalta system� and the Cold War.� John L. Harper, Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Harper is the author of American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy (2004) and American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan and Dean G. Acheson (1994)[-][-]Praise for Allies or Aliens[-]"A valuable contribution to the dialogue on US-Europe relations."--Henry Kissinger, < i > former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State < i >
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