Volume 36, Number 11 · June 29, 1989
A Gent of Dissent
By Ronald Steel
The Price of Empire
by J. William Fulbright, with Seth P. Tillman
Pantheon, 243 pp., $17.95
'If I am remembered, I suppose it will be as a dissenter,' J. William Fulbright begins his graceful book, part memoir, part critical study of the politics of the republic he served with such distinction as legislator. One supposes that he is right, for during a period of about a dozen years, beginning in the early 1960s, Fulbright used his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to investigate, to question and unveil, and ultimately to resist an interventionist foreign policy that he tellingly described in a 1966 book as epitomizing the 'arrogance of power.'
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