American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

“One of the world’s great historians” offers a magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire ( New Republic ). Timely, essential reading for anyone concerned about the current state of US foreign policy. Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urges interact with the way the country understands itself, and the nature of the divergent interests at work in the unfolding of American foreign