Dangerous Nation
by Robert Kagan
America was never isolationist: expansion, ideology and ambition from the colonies to 1898. Kagan's revisionist history, volume one.
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you want American foreign policy's deep roots.
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Skip it if…
you want the twentieth century; see The Ghost at the Feast.
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Three things you will actually use
- Ambition is the tradition.
- Ideology drove expansion.
- Myths of isolation.
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Read the chapters on the early republic.
Our verdict
Kagan's early America.
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