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Promised land, crusader state, the American encounter with the world since 1776, Walter A. McDougall

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Promised land, crusader state, the American encounter with the world since 1776, Walter A. McDougall

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-273) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Promised land, crusader state

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bibliography

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35646415

Responsibility statement

Walter A. McDougall

Sub title

the American encounter with the world since 1776

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: The American bible of foreign affairs -- pt. I. Our Old Testament. 1. Liberty, or exceptionalism (so called). 2. Unilateralism, or isolationism (so called). 3. The American system, or Monroe Doctrine (so called). 4. Expansionism, or manifest destiny (so called) -- pt. II. Our New Testament. 5. Progressive imperialism. 6. Wilsonianism, or liberal internationalism (so called). 7. Containment. 8. Global Meliorism -- Conclusion: A delightsome spot

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