Gifted GreekGifted 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 Stearnss three diplomatic assignments to Athens, the last as a U. S. ambassador. The unresolved dispute over how and by whom Greece should be governed