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Based on new archival discoveries, the first biography of a man who was at

the center of U.S.  foreign policy for a generation

Few have ever enjoyed the degree of foreign-policy influence and versatility that Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did\u2014in the postwar era, perhaps only George Marshall, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker. Lodge, however, had the distinction of wielding that influence under presidents of both parties. For three decades, he was at the center of American foreign policy, serving as advisor to five presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Gerald Ford, and as ambassador to the United Nations, Vietnam, West Germany, and the Vatican.

In The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War (Yale University Press), Luke A. Nichter brings to light previously unexamined material in telling, for the first time, the full story of Lodge\u2019s life and significance.

About the Author . . .

Luke A. Nichter is professor of history at Texas A&M University\u2013Central Texas and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for 2020-21.

Nichter is a noted expert on Richard Nixon\u2019s 3,432 hours of secret White House tapes. He is the New York Times best-selling coauthor (with Douglas Brinkley) of The Nixon Tapes: 1971\u20131972. A sequel volume, The Nixon Tapes: 1973, was published in 2015. His work on the Nixon tapes was the winner of the Arthur S. Link\u2013Warren F. Kuehl Prize for Documentary Editing, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His website, nixontapes.org, offers free access to the publicly released Nixon tapes as a public service.

Nichter\u2019s other books include Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World, which was based on multilingual archival research in six countries. He is a former founding executive producer of C-SPAN\u2019s American History TV, launched in January 2011 in 41 million homes, and his work has appeared in or has been reported on by theNew York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, New Republic, Financial Times, and the Associated Press.

For more information, including video and audio clips of recent interviews, visit his website at http://lukenichter.com/.