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America in the World from Truman to Obama
Knopf
February 2014
On Sale: February 11, 2014
400 pages ISBN: 0307268179 EAN: 9780307268174 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From a writer with long and high-level experience in the
U.S. government, a lively, provocative, and eminently
readable reexamination of American foreign policy, capturing
not only its extraordinary achievements but the diplomatic
missteps, intellectual confusion, and political discord from
which they usually emerge.
American foreign
policy since World War II has long been seen primarily as a
story of strong and successful alliances, domestic
consensus, and continuity from one administration to the
next. Why then have so many presidents--even those most
admired today--left office condemned for their foreign
policy record? In his fresh and compelling history of
America's rise to dominance, Stephen Sestanovich makes clear
that U.S. diplomacy has always stirred controversy, both at
home and abroad. He shows how successive administrations
have struggled to find new solutions, alternating between
bold "maximalist" strategies and retrenchment efforts to
downsize America's role. Almost all our presidents--and all
their most important decisions, from defeat in Vietnam
through victory in the Cold War to today's new
challenges--emerge from this vivid retelling in a sharp and
unexpected light.
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