Robert Schulman

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From the late 1940s through the 1970s, John Sherman Cooper, a quiet lawyer from Kentucky, ascended to become one of America’s leading statesmen. Cooper’s embodiment of the values of his rural upbringing, his understanding of people and their problems, and his openness and integrity were the qualities that Schulman believes, paradoxically won him success in dealing with the most powerful and sophisticated of the world’s leaders. They are the qualities elicited in this warm memoir.

Cooper’s political career began in his native Pulaski County, where he served two terms as county judge during the Depression. But its climax came in the United States Senate. Upon his retirement in 1972, he was hailed as one of the most influential in the history of that body. First elected to the Senate in 1947, Cooper worked for internationalism from the beginning of his career, later led the fight against the ABM, and with Frank Church sponsored crucial amendments that ushered in the withdrawal from Vietnam.

Balanced against this senate career are his contributions in diplomacy—representative to the UN, the establishment of NATO, ambassador to India, a confidential mission to India and Russia, and appointment as the first American ambassador to the German Democratic Republic. In these positions he won the respect, even the admiration, of leaders as diverse as Willy Brandt, Anastas Mikoyan, and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Robert Schulman, former Time-Life bureau chief and media critic for the Louisville Times, based his book on extensive interviews with Cooper, his family, and his colleagues.

Schulman conducted extensive interviews with Cooper, his family, and colleagues and developed these interviews into a warm and highly readable memoir of this outstanding statesman and diplomat. -- Ashland Daily Independent

A concise and very readable biography. -- Lexington Herald-Leader

Highlights a career that stretched from Troublesome Creek to the hallowed halls of the Senate and the capitals of the world. -- Louisville Courier Journal

Publication Date

12-31-1976

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Place of Publication

Lexington, KY

ISBN

9780813191027

eISBN

9780813148380

Keywords

John Sherman Cooper, United States, Foreign relations

Disciplines

United States History

John Sherman Cooper: The Global Kentuckian
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