A01=Moneteagle Stearns
A01=Monteagle Stearns
Ambassador
American Diplomat
Athens
Author_Moneteagle Stearns
Author_Monteagle Stearns
Biography
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Cold War
Diplomatic Appointment
Domestic Affairs
Economic Problems
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Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
Government Leader
Greece
Greece's Liberal Party
Greece’s Liberal Party
Greek Government
Greek History
Greek Politics
Greek Studies
International Affairs
Naturalized Citizen
Political Problems
Political Studies
Political Turmoil
Politician
Prime Minister
Republican
Social Problems
Socialism
Socialist
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- ISBN 9781640123298
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 friendship. Over the decades, however, that friendship was tested and frayed. Gifted Greek is a reflection on the Cold War era, on its impact on Greece, and on Andreas himself-whose dual nature had long fascinated the author and led to this account of their curiously entwined professional and personal lives.
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 friendship. Over the decades, however, that friendship was tested and frayed. Gifted Greek is a reflection on the Cold War era, on its impact on Greece, and on Andreas himself-whose dual nature had long fascinated the author and led to this account of their curiously entwined professional and personal lives.
Monteagle Stearns (1924–2016) was an American diplomat and a U.S. ambassador to Greece. He is the author of Entangled Allies: U.S. Policy toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus and Talking to Strangers: American Diplomacy at Home and Abroad.
