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To End All Wars, New Edition

Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

By: Thomas J. Knock

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To End All Wars, New Edition

Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

By: Thomas J. Knock

A close look at Woodrow Wilson’s political thought and international diplomacy In the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson’s epic quest for a new world order. This book follows Wilson’s thought and diplomacy from his policy toward revolutionary Mexico, through his dramatic call for “Peace without Victory” in World War I, to the Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations. Throughout, Knock reinterprets the origins of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson’s failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism—conservative and progressive.

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0691191921

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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

The Life and Times of George McGovern

By: Thomas J. Knock

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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

The Life and Times of George McGovern

By: Thomas J. Knock

The first major biography of the 1972 U.S. presidential candidate and unsung champion of American liberalism The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's life from his rustic boyhood in a South Dakota prairie town during the Depression to his rise to the pinnacle of politics at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where police and antiwar demonstrators clashed in the city's streets. Drawing extensively on McGovern's private papers and scores of in-depth interviews, Knock shows how McGovern's importance to the Democratic Party and American liberalism extended far beyond his 1972 presidential campaign, and how the story of postwar American politics is about more than just the rise of the New Right. He vividly describes McGovern's harrowing missions over Nazi Germany as a B-24 bomber pilot, and reveals how McGovern's combat experiences motivated him to earn a PhD in history and stoked his ambition to run for Congress. When President Kennedy appointed him director of Food for Peace in 1961, McGovern engineered a vast expansion of the program's school lunch initiative that soon was feeding tens of millions of hungry children around the world. As a senator, he delivered his courageous and unrelenting critique of Lyndon Johnson's escalation in Vietnam—a conflict that brought their party to disaster and caused a new generation of Democrats to turn to McGovern for leadership. A stunning achievement, The Rise of a Prairie Statesman ends in 1968, in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, when the "Draft McGovern" movement thrust him into the national spotlight and the contest for the presidential nomination, culminating in his triumphal reelection to the Senate and his emergence as one of the most likely prospects for the Democratic nomination in 1972..

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Princeton University Press

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0691142998

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9780691142999

The Roaring Twenties

By: Thomas Streissguth

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The Roaring Twenties

By: Thomas Streissguth

Covers the social, political, and economic history of the 1920s, including developments in science, from astrophysics to laboratory science to discoveries and inventions; the creation of new professional sports leagues; the labor union movement; censorship, and writers, artists, and moviemakers. This volume captures the complexities of the 1920s.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108877

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To End All Wars, New Edition

Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

By: Thomas J. Knock

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Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

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The Crisis of American Foreign Policy

Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century

By: G. John Ikenberry,Thomas J. Knock,Anne-Marie Slaughter,Tony Smith

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The Crisis of American Foreign Policy

Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century

By: G. John Ikenberry,Thomas J. Knock,Anne-Marie Slaughter,Tony Smith

Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between the ideals of Woodrow Wilson and those of George W. Bush. The Crisis of American Foreign Policy exposes the challenges resulting from Bush's foreign policy and ponders America's place in the international arena. Led by John Ikenberry, one of today's foremost foreign policy thinkers, this provocative collection examines the traditions of liberal internationalism that have dominated American foreign policy since the end of World War II. Tony Smith argues that Bush and the neoconservatives followed Wilson in their commitment to promoting democracy abroad. Thomas Knock and Anne-Marie Slaughter disagree and contend that Wilson focused on the building of a collaborative and rule-centered world order, an idea the Bush administration actively resisted. The authors ask if the United States is still capable of leading a cooperative effort to handle the pressing issues of the new century, or if the country will have to go it alone, pursuing policies without regard to the interests of other governments. Addressing current events in the context of historical policies, this book considers America's position on the global stage and what future directions might be possible for the nation in the post-Bush era.

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Princeton University Press

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1400829771

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Our Right to Drugs

The Case for a Free Market

By: Thomas Szasz

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Our Right to Drugs

The Case for a Free Market

By: Thomas Szasz

In Our Right to Drugs, Szasz shows how the present drug war started at the beginning of this century, when the US government first assumed the task of protecting people from patent medicines. By the end of World War I the free market in drugs was but a dim memory. Instead of dwelling on the familiar impracticality and unfairness of drug laws, Szasz demonstrates the deleterious effects of prescription laws, which place people under lifelong medical supervision. The result is that most Americans today prefer a coercive and corrupt command drug economy to a free market in drugs.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815603339

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9780815603337

The Illusion Of Victory

America In World War I

By: Thomas Fleming

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The Illusion Of Victory

America In World War I

By: Thomas Fleming

The political history of the American experience in World War I is a story of conflict and bungled intentions that begins in an era dedicated to progressive social reform and ends in the Red Scare and Prohibition. Thomas Fleming tells this story through the complex figure of Woodrow Wilson, the contradictory president who wept after declaring war, devastated because he knew it would destroy the tolerance of the American people, but who then suppressed freedom of speech and used propaganda to excite America into a Hun-hating mob. This is tragic history: inexperienced American military leaders drove their troops into gruesome slaughters; progressive politics were put on hold in America; an idealistic president's dreams were crushed because of his own negligence. Wilson's inability to convince Congress to ratify U.S. membership in the League of Nations was one of the most poignant failures in the history of the American presidency, but even more heartrending were Wilson's concessions to his bitter allies in the Treaty of Versailles. In exchange for Allied support of the League of Nations, he allowed an unfair peace treaty to be signed, a treaty that played no small role in the rise of National Socialism and the outbreak of World War II. Thomas Fleming has once again created a masterpiece of narrative American history. This incomparable portrait shows how Wilson sacrificed his noble vision to megalomania and single-mindedness, while paying homage to him as a visionary whose honorable spirit continues to influence Western politics.

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Basic Books

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0786724986

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Pharmacracy

Medicine and Politics in America

By: Thomas Szasz

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Pharmacracy

Medicine and Politics in America

By: Thomas Szasz

The modern penchant for transforming human problems into "diseases" and judicial sanctions into "treatments," replacing the rule of law with the rule of medical discretion, leads to a type of government social critic Thomas Szasz calls "pharmacracy." He warns that the creeping substitution of democracy for pharmacracyprivate personal concerns increasingly perceived as requiring a medical-political responseinexorably erodes personal freedom and dignity.

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0815607636

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Since 1865

The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic

By: Kennedy,David M. Kennedy,Lizabeth Cohen,Professor Thomas Andrew Bailey,Mel Piehl

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Since 1865

The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic

By: Kennedy,David M. Kennedy,Lizabeth Cohen,Professor Thomas Andrew Bailey,Mel Piehl

The Brief American Pageant retains the vivid chronological narrative of its full-length counterpart, focusing on the great public debates that have dominated American history. Engaging features draw students into the narrative, improving comprehension and increasing their interest in the material. "Varying Viewpoints" features explore the scholarly debates surrounding major historical issues, while "Makers of America" essays focus on the diverse ethnic, racial, and activist groups that compose America's pluralistic society.

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Cengage Learning

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0618332707

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American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy

The Fragmented Kaleidoscope

By: Thomas J. Cobb

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American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy

The Fragmented Kaleidoscope

By: Thomas J. Cobb

This book contends that Hollywood films help illuminate the incongruities of various periods in American diplomacy. From the war film Bataan to the Revisionist Western The Wild Bunch, cinema has long reflected US foreign policy’s divisiveness both directly and allegorically. Beginning with the 1990s presidential drama The American President and concluding with Joker’s allegorical treatment of the Trump era, this book posits that the paradigms for political reflection are shifting in American film, from explicit subtexts surrounding US statecraft to covert representations of diplomatic disarray. It further argues that the International Relations theorist Walter Mead’s concept of a US polity dominated by contesting beliefs, or a ‘kaleidoscope’, permeates these changing paradigms. This synergy reveals a cultural milieu where foreign policy fissures are increasingly encoded by cinematic representation. The interdisciplinarity of this focus renders this book pertinent reading for scholars and students of American Studies, Film Studies and International Relations, along with those generally interested in Hollywood filmmakers and foreign policy.

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Springer Nature

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3030426785

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9783030426781

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

The Life and Times of George McGovern

By: Thomas J. Knock

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The Life and Times of George McGovern

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1400880416

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The Life and Letters of Thomas À Becket: Now First Gathered from the Contemporary Historians;

By: John Allen Giles,Thomas

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The Life and Letters of Thomas À Becket: Now First Gathered from the Contemporary Historians;

By: John Allen Giles,Thomas

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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1376423200

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To End All Wars, New Edition

To End All Wars, New Edition

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

To End All Wars, New Edition

To End All Wars, New Edition

The Crisis of American Foreign Policy

The Crisis of American Foreign Policy

Our Right to Drugs

Our Right to Drugs

The Illusion Of Victory

The Illusion Of Victory

Pharmacracy

Pharmacracy

Since 1865

Since 1865

American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy

American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

The Life and Letters of Thomas À Becket: Now First Gathered from the Contemporary Historians;

The Life and Letters of Thomas À Becket: Now First Gathered from the Contemporary Historians;

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