War and Foreign Policy

The Economic Causes of War

Tags: Global Economy, War and Foreign Policy

08/10/1968 • Lionel Robbins

Robbins’ analysis here presented has still a place in the rational discussion of the possible causes of war. It fits very well the period of history in regard to which the Marxian theories here discussed were originally elaborated.

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American Liberalism and World Politics: 1931-1941

Tags: U.S. Economy, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

08/27/1964 • James J. Martin

From the foreword by John Chamberlain: This animated jumbo of a book, which is alive with the savor and color of a long departed time when half-forgotten figures like Oswald Garrison Villard and Raymond Gram Swing were setting our intellectual...

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Man and Nature in America

Tags: The Environment, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

06/16/1963 • Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

From the author: I have written Man and Nature in America in the hope of providing today’s readers with some historical perspective on the problem implied in this title. Since I am an historian and not a scientist, I cannot claim expert...

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Roosevelt’s Road to Russia

Tags: Big Government, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/16/1959 • George Crocker

From the author: Randolph Bourne, one of the critical commentators of the Woodrow Wilson period, once wrote that war is like a wild elephant: it carries the rider where it desires, not where he may desire. Perhaps the historian predilected to...

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The Twenty-Year Revolution: from Roosevelt to Eisenhower

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

09/03/1954 • Chesly Manly

From the author: As Thomas Paine wrote in The Crisis, in 1776, “These are times that try men’s souls.” The question then was whether the American revolution could be saved. The·question now is whether the American Republic, born in a patriotic...

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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

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07/17/1953 • Harry Elmer Barnes

This book is a critical survey and appraisal of the development of American foreign policy during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and of its results, as they have affected the course of world history, the national interest of the United...

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A Foreign Policy for Americans

Tags: War and Foreign Policy

12/18/1952 • Robert A. Taft

Written in 1951, Taft argued that the freedom of the people of the United States was—as it is now—in serious danger from the foreign and domestic policies of the political class.

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Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy 1933-1941

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

04/12/1952 • Charles Callan Tansill

Charles Callan Tansill , one of the foremost American diplomatic historians of the twentieth century, argues that FDR wished to involve the United States in the European War that began in September 1939. When he proved unable to do so directly...

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While You Slept

Tags: Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

11/01/1951 • John T. Flynn

The amazing step-by-step, person-by-person story of how the American left wing took over our most influential media — radio, movies, magazines and books — and persuaded our leaders to support the Communist Plan to turn China and Korea over to...

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America’s Second Crusade

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

03/16/1950 • William Henry Chamberlin

Was World War II a failure? It is an unthinkable thought in the American political ethos. but noted American journalist and author William Henry Chamberlin dares think it, from the vantage point of the immediate postwar world of 1950. “Not one...

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