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Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals (Hardcover)
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Presidents, Diplomats, and Other Mortals (Hardcover)
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From Abraham Lincoln's stance on international slavery to George W.
Bush's incursions on the world stage, American presidents and other
leaders have taken decisive actions to shape our country's foreign
policy. This new collection of essays provides analytical
narratives of how and why policies were devised and implemented
that would determine the place of the United States in the
international arena from the 1860s to the present. Showing what
individuals do - or choose not to do - is central to understanding
diplomacy in peace and war. These writings examine presidents and
other diplomats at their best and worst in the practice of
statecraft. They take on issues ranging from America's economic
expansion abroad to the relations of democracies with authoritarian
leaders and rogue nations to advocacy of such concepts as
internationalism, unilateralism, nation-building, and regime
change. In so doing, they take readers on a virtual tour of
American diplomatic history, tracing the ideas and actions of
individuals in shaping our foreign policy, whether George F. Kennan
as author of Soviet containment or Ronald Reagan as progenitor of
""Star Wars."" The essays range over a variety of scenarios to
depict leaders coming to grips with real-world situations. They
offer original views on such topics as American diplomacy toward
Nicaragua, origins of U.S. attitudes toward Russia and the Soviet
Union, FDR's idiosyncratic approach to statecraft, and food
diplomacy as practiced by LBJ and Richard Nixon. And in considering
post - Cold War crises, they address Bill Clinton's military
interventions, George W. Bush's war against Iraq, and the
half-century background to the current nuclear standoff with Iran.
Additional articles pay tribute to the outstanding career of Robert
H. Ferrell as a scholar and teacher. ""Presidents, Diplomats, and
Other Mortals"" is both a collection of compelling historical
studies and an overarching case study of the role of individuals in
foreign policymaking and an insightful review of some of history's
most important moments. Taken together, these essays provide a
fitting tribute to Ferrell, the trailblazing scholar in whose honor
the book was written.
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