Henry Cabot Lodge: 1902-1985: A Brahmin's Life of Service

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Graceful adjustment--from isolationist to internationalist or from partisanship to diplomacy--did not seem difficult for him. He was driven less by raw ambition than by the responsibilities of privilege. As such, Lodge may have been one of the last of his breed, part of a strain of moderate, blue- blooded Republicanism that now appears to be fading out. It was a mark of his usefulness that despite the decline of his kind, throughout his life he never quite seemed an anachronism.