Promised Land, Crusader State: American Encounter with the World Since 1776 - Hardcover

McDougall, Walter A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395830850 ISBN 13: 9780395830857

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

A look at America's foreign policy over the past two hundred years posits the theory that America is struggling with two visions of itself as reflected in its foreign policy

Über diesen Titel

Críticas

"McDougall has written a lively and provacative book"

Reseña del editor

Taking up the torch of George Kennan, Pulitzer Prize winner Walter McDougall proposes nothing less than to cleanse the vocabulary of our post-Cold War debate on America's place in world affairs. Looking back over two centuries, he draws a striking contrast between America as a Promised Land, a vision inspired by the "Old Testament" of our diplomatic wisdom through the nineteenth century, and the contrary vision of America as a Crusader State, which inspired the "New Testament" of our foreign policy beginning at the time of the Spanish-American War and reaching its fulfillment in Vietnam. To this day, these two visions and these two testaments battle for control of the way America sees its role in the world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0395830850
• ISBN 13: 9780395830857
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar