W. W. Rostow was Rex G. Baker Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Austin. His sixty-year career has also included service in the U.S. State Department, and he served as special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

"Rostow can be placed in the category of Dean Rusk and others who pondered difficult issues, made judgments, and had to live with them... He was part of the establishment, a wise man, one who was very successful... [His] memoirs are bound to interest many people, scholars and officials alike. They [offer] a fascinating look at several decades of history and scholarship." Thomas W. Zeiler, author of Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad

• Preface 1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944? 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1999: The Hinge Was Poland 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 Appendix B Appendix C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2002 Notes Index

W. W. Rostow was Rex G. Baker Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Austin. His sixty-year career has also included service in the U.S. State Department, and he served as special assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

"Rostow can be placed in the category of Dean Rusk and others who pondered difficult issues, made judgments, and had to live with them... He was part of the establishment, a wise man, one who was very successful... [His] memoirs are bound to interest many people, scholars and officials alike. They [offer] a fascinating look at several decades of history and scholarship." Thomas W. Zeiler, author of Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad

• Preface 1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942-1945: Should the Allies Have Won the War in Europe in 1944? 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1999: The Hinge Was Poland 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963: The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized 9. China, 1949-: Waiting for a Democratic Revolution 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? 11. The Urban Problem, 1991-: Prevention versus Damage Control 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 Appendix B Appendix C. Text of W. W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994-2002 Notes Index