Between virtue and power : the persistent moral dilemma of U.S. foreign policy /
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Origins and significance of the American mythology
- Founding a virtuous republic
- Problems of virtue and power
- Nonentanglement : the economic dimension
- Nonentanglement : the political dimension
- Innocent virtue and the conquest of a continent
- From imperialism to world peace
- Woodrow Wilson and the reign of virtue
- Disillusionment and hope
- American isolation
- American virtue and the Soviet challenge
- Anticommunism and American virtue
- Cold War ironies
- Vietnam : virtue stained, power humbled
- Putting Humpty together again
- Offended innocence, righteous wrath.