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A professor of political science at Georgetown University, Kirkpatrick entered government service. She wasn't simply the first American woman named ambassador to the United Nations, she was also the only woman on President Ronald Reagan's National Security Council -- and the only lifelong Democrat there. "I was a Democrat once, you know," Reagan told her. "When she put her feet under the desk of the Oval Office, the President listened," said William P. Clark, Reagan's national security advisor. The Soviets, especially, didn't like Kirkpatrick, and spent a lot of effort trying to discredit her -- even forging letters in her name. She shrugged it off. "I felt there was as much disinformation aimed at me from inside our own government, frankly, as from the Soviet Union," she once said. "That's a shocking thing to say, but it is no exaggeration." She left the U.N. after four years and returned to private life, though she briefly considered running for president herself. She died at home in her sleep on December 7. She was 80. From This is True for 3 December 2006 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick List Price: $26.95 Amazon Price: $17.79 Editorial Review: When Jeane J. Kirkpatrick died in December 2006, she left behind more than her legacy as a "heroine of conservatives." She had just completed work on this extraordinary survey of American foreign policy in the post-Cold War age: a bold and revisionist assessment of two decades of American interventions abroad—a troubled period of small successes, tragic failures, and important lessons for our future. Since the end of the Cold War, Kirkpatrick argues, America's relationship with the world has been especially compromised by its mutual distrust with the United Nations, and by continuing uncertainty over U.S. involvement in conflicts among rogue nations overseas. In Making War to Keep Peace, Kirkpatrick offers a tightly observed chronicle of the result: a period in which the United States has increasingly used force around the world—to mixed and often challenging results. Tracing the course of diplomatic initiatives and armed conflict in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, she illuminates the shift from the first Bush administration's ambitious vision of a New World Order to the overambitious nation-building efforts of the Clinton administration. Kirkpatrick offers a strong critique of Clinton's foreign policy, arguing that his administration went beyond Bush's interest in building international consensus and turned it into a risky reliance on the United Nations. But she also questions when, how, and why the United States should resort to military solutions—especially in light of the challenging war in Iraq, about which Kirkpatrick shares her "grave reservations" here for the first time. With the powerful words that have marked her long and distinguished career, Kirkpatrick explores where we have gone wrong—and raises lingering questions about what perils tomorrow might hold. Right V. Might: Preaching From The Prophets By: Louis HenkinStanley HoffmannJeane J. Kirkpatrick List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $12.95  By: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick List Price: $26.95 Amazon Price: $21.02 Editorial Review: When Jeane J. Kirkpatrick died in December 2006, she left behind more than her legacy as a "heroine of conservatives." She had just completed work on this extraordinary survey of American foreign policy in the post-Cold War age: a bold and revisionist assessment of two decades of American interventions abroad—a troubled period of small successes, tragic failures, and important lessons for our future. Since the end of the Cold War, Kirkpatrick argues, America's relationship with the world has been especially compromised by its mutual distrust with the United Nations, and by continuing uncertainty over U.S. involvement in conflicts among rogue nations overseas. In Making War to Keep Peace, Kirkpatrick offers a tightly observed chronicle of the result: a period in which the United States has increasingly used force around the world—to mixed and often challenging results. Tracing the course of diplomatic initiatives and armed conflict in Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo, she illuminates the shift from the first Bush administration's ambitious vision of a New World Order to the overambitious nation-building efforts of the Clinton administration. Kirkpatrick offers a strong critique of Clinton's foreign policy, arguing that his administration went beyond Bush's interest in building international consensus and turned it into a risky reliance on the United Nations. But she also questions when, how, and why the United States should resort to military solutions—especially in light of the challenging war in Iraq, about which Kirkpatrick shares her "grave reservations" here for the first time. With the powerful words that have marked her long and distinguished career, Kirkpatrick explores where we have gone wrong—and raises lingering questions about what perils tomorrow might hold. Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: National and Int... By: Jeane J. Kirkpatrick List Price: $44.95 Amazon Price: $44.95  By: Gerson List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $35.00 |
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