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Greece in the 1960s produced one of Europe's arguably most controversial politicians of the post-war era. The contrarian politics of Andreas Papandreou grew out of his conflict laden re-engagement with Greece in the 1960s. Returning to Athens after 20 years in the US where he had been a rising member of the American liberal establishment, Papandreou forged a social reform-oriented, nationalist politics in Greece that ultimately put him at odds with the US foreign policy establishment and made him the primary target of a pro-American military coup in 1967. Venerated by his admirers and despised by his detractors with equal passion, the Harvard-educated Papandreou left in his wake no clear-cut answer to the question of who he was and what he stood for. Andreas Papandreou chronicles the events, struggles and ideas that defined the man's dramatic, intrigue-filled transformation from Kennedy-era modernizer to Cold War maverick. In the process the book examines the explosive interplay of character and circumstance that generated Papandreou's contentious, but powerfully consequential politics.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Andreas Papandreou
• Subtitle: The Making of a Greek Democrat and Political Maverick
• Author: Stan Draenos
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9781780760803
• ISBN: 1780760809
• ID: 04843524
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 702 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 162 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 2012

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