Around the Edge of War

With Around the Edge of War: A New Approach to the Problems of American Foreign Policy, John Forth Amory wrote a thought-provoking book examining several approaches to United States foreign policy. A Washington expert at the time of first publication in 1961, Amory was critical of the tendency in Washington to "over-think" a problem, and advocated a return to Jeffersonian principles as a beginning in the search of reasonable alternatives to present policy. "Our primary purpose is to help America