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Gifted Greek: The Enigma of Andreas Papandreou (Adst-dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy) by Monteagle Stearns; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Gifted Greek is a reflection on twentieth-century Greek history and politics, as well as a character study of its first socialist prime minister, Andreas Papandreou. Monteagle Stearns witnessed the transformation of Papandreou from an affable American economist to a stormy, anti-American Greek, over Stearns's three diplomatic assignments to Athens, the last as a U.S. ambassador. The unresolved dispute over how and by whom Greece should be governed parallels the equally unresolved issues between Papandreou and his estranged father, George. Andreas, who left Greece in 1940, became a naturalized American citizen and a twenty-year resident of the United States. In contrast, George was thoroughly Greek: a flamboyant, republican-leaning politician, a one-time prime minister, and a perennial leader of Greece's Liberal Party. Stearns arrived in Athens as a diplomat in early 1958, in the thick of Greece's political turmoil. Over the next five years, he came to know first George Papandreou and then his son, Andreas. As neighbors in suburban Athens, as fellow Americans, and as like-minded critics of the problems still afflicting postwar Greece, Stearns and Andreas quickly established a warm

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Author

Monteagle Stearns; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781640124240

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science