Alexander Etkind is professor of history at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He previously taught at the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia, and at Cambridge University, where he was a fellow of King’s College and professor
A brilliant portrait of one of the most important American
diplomats of the twentieth century. A man of immense charm, a
friend and savior of Freud and his family in 1938, an admirer of
Russia and witness to the horror of the purges, a figure turned
into fiction by Bulgakov, Bullitt comes to life in Etkind’s
remarkable book. Essential reading for all students of
twentieth-century Europe and the European-American embrace."" - Jay
Winter, Yale University
""Alexander Etkind is among the most fecund and original of
cultural historians. Extraordinary lives like William Bullitt’s—
deeply involved with Freud, Wilson, Lenin, Stalin, Kennan and
Roosevelt— make extraordinary demands on their biographers. Etkind
has more than met these demands in this wonderful volume."" - Eli
Zaretsky, author of Political Freud
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