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Abraham Lincoln Gordon (September 10, 1913 – December 19, 2009) was the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University (1967–1971) and a United States Ambassador to Brazil (1961–1966).
Lincoln Gordon Gordon, a Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and accomplished academic, was considered one of the government’s leading experts on Latin America before his appointment as ambassador. During his years as ambassador, Gordon was critical of the leftist government of Joao Goulart, and authorized U.S. military support for the 1964 ...
Dec 21, 2009 · Lincoln Gordon, a diplomat, educator and political economist who was the American ambassador to Brazil in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the president of Johns Hopkins...
Dec 28, 2009 · Brookings scholar Lincoln Gordon—who oversaw the implementation of the Marshall Plan after World War II—died on December 19 at the age of 96 after a long and productive life in the academic...
Learn about the life and achievements of Lincoln Gordon, a key player in the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. He served as an adviser to three presidents, an ambassador to Brazil, and a scholar at Harvard and Brookings.
His family, led by his gifted and assertive mother, had grown away from its immigrant and ethnic origins and embraced Americanism. Lincoln’s religion, to the extent he had anything resembling religious belief, consisted of devotion to the creed of American exceptionalism and the embrace of secular humanism.
In this impressive biography, Bruce L. R. Smith examines Gordon's substantial contributions to U.S. mobilization during the Second World War, Europe's postwar economic recovery, the...
