Belief in the United States as a force for good in the world runs
deep. Yet an honest consideration reveals a history marred by great
crimes and ordinary errors, alongside many achievements and
triumphs. In this comprehensive account of American foreign
relations from the nation's founding through the present day, the
diplomatic historian Warren I. Cohen calls attention to the
uses-and abuses-of U.S. international leadership and the noble as
well as the exploitative ends that American power has wrought. In A
Nation Like All Others, Cohen offers a brisk, argumentative history
that confronts the concept of American exceptionalism and decries
the lack of moral imagination in American foreign policy. He begins
with the foreign policy of colonial and postrevolutionary America,
exploring interactions with European powers and Native Americans
and the implications of slavery and westward expansion. He then
traces the rise of American empire; the nation's choices leading up
to and in the wake of the First World War; and World War II and
renewed military involvement in foreign affairs. Cohen provides a
long history of the Cold War, from its roots under Truman through
the Korean and Vietnam Wars to the transformation of the
international system under Reagan and Gorbachev. Finally, he
surveys America's recent history in the Middle East, with
particular attention to the mismanagement of the War on Terror and
Abu Ghraib. Written with great depth of knowledge and moral
clarity, A Nation Like All Others suggests that an unflinching look
at the nation's past is America's best option to shape a better
future.
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