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The Last Card Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq edited by Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffrey Engel, Hal Br ands & William Inboden

This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself, The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military leadership and many of his trusted advisors, and authorized the deployment of roughly 30,000 additional troops to the warzone in a bid to save Iraq from collapse in 2007. In The Last Card we have access to the deliberations among the decision-makers on Bush’s national security team as they embarked on that course and is a portrait of leadership—firm and daring if flawed—in the Bush White House. The personal perspectives from men and women who served at the White House, Foggy Bottom, the Pentagon, and in Baghdad, are complemented by critical assessments written by leading scholars in the field of international security. Taken together, the candid interviews and probing essays are a first draft of the history of the surge and new chapter in the history of the American presidency. Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Jeffrey A. Engel is Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Hal Brands is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

“The Last Card provides an extraordinarily useful collective oral history of the decision-making leading to the ‘surge,’ and offers a set of incisive essays that critique and assess the decision and process that led to it.” —Melvyn P. Leffler, University of Virginia, author of Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism “The Last Card is an exhaustively researched account of how President George W. Bush made the decision to conduct the Surge in Iraq. Readers will find this a gripping description of how the president made one of the toughest calls of his time in office.”—General David Petraeus, (US Army, Ret.), Commander of the Surge in Iraq , US Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan

William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr., Chair of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Day After Why American Wins the War but Loses the Peace Brendan R. Gall agher

Since 9/11, why have we won smashing battlefield victories only to botch nearly everything that comes next? In the opening phases of war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we mopped the floor with our enemies. But in short order, things went horribly wrong. We soon discovered we had no coherent plan to manage the “day after.” This helped set the stage for an extraordinary historical moment in which America’s role in the world, along with our commitment to democracy at home and abroad, have become subject to growing doubt. With the benefit of hindsight, can we discern what went wrong? Why have we had such great difficulty planning for the aftermath of war? In The Day After, Brendan Gallagher—an Army lieutenant colonel with multiple combat tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, and a Princeton PhD—seeks to tackle this vital question. Gallagher argues there is a tension between our desire to create a new democracy and our competing desire to pull out as soon as possible. Our leaders often strive to accomplish both to keep everyone happy. But by avoiding the tough underlying decisions, it fosters an incoherent strategy. This makes chaos more likely. The Day After draws on new interviews with dozens of civilian and military officials, ranging from US cabinet secretaries to four-star generals. Striking at the heart of what went wrong in our recent wars, and what we should do about it, Gallagher asks whether we will learn from our mistakes, or provoke even more disasters? Human lives, money, elections, and America’s place in the world hinges on the answer. Brendan R. Gallagher is a US Army lieutenant colonel in the 75th Ranger Regiment with seven completed tours to Iraq and Afghanistan. He received the General George C. Marshall award as the top US graduate at the Army Command and General Staff College, and is currently a battalion commander. He holds a PhD in public and international affairs from Princeton.

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“The Day After asks why America has so often won the war but lost the peace that followed. Brendan Gallagher’s answers are correct and timeless: Postwar is harder than war. Beware of magical thinking. Learn from history. His book is a good reference for heads of state, scholars, and soldiers.”—Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, US Army (Ret.), author of Knife Fights “A thought-provoking, intensively-researched, and compelling account (and cautionary tale) of the enormous challenges of the ‘post-conflict’ phases of America’s major post-9/11 interventions— by a true soldier-scholar who served on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and then carefully studied those conflicts.” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) “The Day After is a searing indictment of American strategic incompetence. This book will make you angry—and it should.”— Gideon Rose, author of How Wars End

The Nuclear Spies America’s Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin Vince Houghton

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union’s nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project’s intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi ‘s plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong? Houghton’s riveting retelling of this fascinating case of American spy ineffectiveness in the then new field of scientific intelligence provides us with a new look at the early years of the Cold War. During that time, scientific intelligence quickly grew to become a significant portion of the CIA budget as it struggled to contend with the incredible advance in weapons and other scientific discoveries immediately after World War II. As Houghton shows, the abilities of the Soviet Union’s scientists, its research facilities and laboratories, and its educational system became a key consideration for the CIA in assessing the threat level of its most potent foe. Sadly, for the CIA scientific intelligence was extremely difficult to do well. For when the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949, no one in the American intelligence services saw it coming. Vince Houghton is Historian and Curator at the International Spy Museum. He taught courses in Cold War history and intelligence history at the University of Maryland and is the host and creative director of Spycast, the Spy Museum’s popular podcast. His work has been published widely in such media as Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist, Vanity Fair, and many others.

“The Nuclear Spies deftly navigates the decisions made, for better or worse, by World War II–era American intelligence agencies. This book [adds to our] understanding of scientific intelligence as a tool for national security.”—Valerie Plame, former covert CIA Operations Officer “Vince Houghton is clearly well versed in the history and the intelligence challenges about which he is writing, resulting in an illuminating and valuable book.”—Richard Immerman, Temple University, author of The Hidden Hand “The Nuclear Spies is a valuable contribution to the history of science and, in particular, the emergence of scientific intelligence as a national security tool. . . and is critical for our current and future scientific intelligence programs.”—John C. Browne, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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The Kosher Capones A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters Joe Kr aus

The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin “Zuckie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate’s “Jewish wing.” These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone’s criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago’s political corruption. Hard-tobelieve anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years. Joe K raus is Chair of the Department of English and Theatre at the University of Scranton. He is co-author of An Accidental Anarchist, and his scholarly and creative work has appeared widely. He lives in Shavertown, PA, with his wife and three sons.

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“When the story moves forward in time, Kraus focuses on Lenny Patrick, “the central figure in Chicago Jewish organized crime,” who eventually became a cooperating witness whose testimony took down the syndicate”—Publisher’s Weekly “An engaging story about the history of Jewish gangsters in Chicago.”—Elizabeth Dale, University of Florida, author of The Chicago Trunk Murder

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure The Sad History of American Business Schools Steven Conn

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of “innovative,” “outside-the-box” thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don’t, Steven Conn asserts, and what’s more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn’s Nothing Succeeds Like Failure examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them. Beginning with founding of the Wharton School in 1881, Conn measures these schools’ aspirations against their actual accomplishments and tells the full and disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations, and educational mistakes. Conn then poses a set of crucial questions about the role and function of American business schools. The results aren’t pretty. Posing a set of crucial questions about the function of American business schools, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is pugnacious and controversial. Deeply researched and fun to read, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure argues that the impressive façades of business school buildings resemble nothing so much as collegiate versions of Oz. Conn pulls back the curtain to reveal a story of failure to meet the expectations of the public, their missions, their graduates, and their own lofty aspirations of producing moral and ethical business leaders. Steven Conn is W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University. He is author of numerous books, including, most recently, Americans Against the City.

“The book’s greatest failing lies in its high-mindedness, as it never justifies the contention that MBAs should be primarily concerned with social change, rather than business best practices. It’s unclear who the audience for this would be—the subject is too niche and the tone too bitter.”—Publisher’s Weekly “Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is a brilliant and long-overdue puncturing of the business school mystique. Conn vividly outlines the creation and growth of the business school culture on America’s university campuses. Conn’s skewering is delicious. I just hope he has tenure.” —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House “Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is timely, quite funny, and written by a first-rate historian.” —Christopher P. Loss, Vanderbilt University

HISTORIES OF AMERICAN EDUCATION

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Thomas Mann’s War Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters Tobias Boes

In Thomas Mann’s War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America’s most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism’s existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters. Tobias Boes is Associate Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Formative Fictions. Follow him on Twitter @tobiasboes.

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“Thomas Mann’s War is a beautiful and erudite book based on new international archival research. It creatively connects Thomas Mann’s politics in American exile with the media politics of his time. By exploring issues such as practices of lecturing, translation or publication, it uncovers the ways Mann was reinvented politically and aesthetically as a writer.” —Veronika Fuechtner, Dartmouth College, author of Berlin Psychoanalytic “This brilliantly conceived study is a timely reminder of Thomas Mann as a writer of international consequence. Tobias Boes makes the bold and utterly convincing case that the German Nobel laureate produced a pioneering paradigm for a growing number of contemporary authors the world over, severed from their native cultural communities, have had to reinvent themselves.”—Hans Rudolf Vaget, Smith College

No Useless Mouth Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution R achel B. Herrmann

In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were “useful mouths”—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era.

“No Useless Mouth combines an Atlantic perspective with a close scrutiny of struggles and negotiations over food and hunger. Rachel B. Herrmann’s sharp eye for the nuances of symbolic communication and keen ear for the languages used to legitimate inequality yield fresh and valuable insights.”— Michael A. LaCombe, Adelphi University, and author of Political Gastronomy “Rachel B. Herrmann has written the definitive study of the political uses of hunger and food in the Revolutionary Atlantic. In No Useless Mouth she asks us to reconsider the traditional narrative of decline of Native American and African Americans at the dawn of the US National era.”—Ann M. Little, Colorado State University, and author of The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

Rachel B. Herrmann is Lecturer in Modern American History at Cardiff University. She is the editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey.

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Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji Nancy Shoemaker

Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others’ respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation’s founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the “cannibal isles” of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain’s wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker’s book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others’ respect—others’ approval, admiration, or deference. Nancy Shoemaker of the University of Connecticut is a historian of Native American history. Her books include A Strange Likeness, Native American Whalemen and the World, and an edited collection of historical documents and oral histories called Living with Whales. While investigating whaling history, she broadened her interests to include the history of the US in the world, especially in the Pacific.

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD

NOVEMBER

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“In this significant study, Nancy Shoemaker reconstructs the history of early American encounters in the Fiji islands. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles raises important questions and builds on original research to recover voices that had been erased from the historical record.” —Dane Morrison, Salem State University “Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles is accomplished in its storytelling and rich narrative detail. Nancy Shoemaker has written a model for transnational scholarship.” —Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University “Now one of our most daring and interesting historians of indigenous peoples and colonialism asks how the pursuit of respect helped propel US expansion into the Pacific. Nancy Shoemaker’s answers pry open the personal motivations that helped power a world of transformation and trauma in the nineteenth century. An engrossing, elegant, and important book.” —Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley

Divided Allies Strategic Cooperation against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific during the Early Cold War Thomas K. Robb & David James Gill

By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history. At its heart, Divided Allies examines why strategic cooperation among these closely allied Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region was limited during the early Cold War. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill probe the difficulties of security cooperation as the leadership of these four states balanced intramural competition with the need to develop a common strategy against the Soviet Union and the new communist power, the People’s Republic of China. Robb and Gill expose contention and disorganization among non-communist allies in the early phase of containment strategy in the Asia-Pacific. In particular, the authors note the significance of economic, racial, and cultural elements to planning for regional security and they highlight how these domestic matters resulted in international disorganization. Divided Allies shows that, amidst these contentious relations, the antipodean powers Australia and New Zealand occupied an important role in the region and successfully utilized quadrilateral diplomacy to advance their own national interests, such as the crafting of the 1951 ANZUS collective security treaty. As fractious as were allied relations in the early days of NATO, Robb and Gill demonstrate that the post-World War II Asia-Pacific was as contentious, and that Britain and the commonwealth nations were necessary partners in the development of early global Cold War strategy. Thomas K. Robb is Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is author of Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American “Special Relationship” and A Strained Partnership?

“Divided Allies changes the way we think about existing Cold War history. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill’s work will spark substantial research, and the book will be a rich resource for scholars in international relations, diplomatic history, and regional studies.”—Jarrod Hayes, University of Massachusetts and MIT “Divided Allies is a stimulating analysis of the complex dynamics of alliance politics in the early Cold War. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill skillfully weigh multiple factors, including domestic politics, in explaining the diverse interests and sometimes fractious relations within the ANZUS and SEATO pacts.”—Marc Gallicchio, Villanova University, and co-author of the Bancroft Prize-winning Implacable Foes

David James Gill is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Britain and the Bomb.

NOVEMBER

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Heaven’s Wrath The Protestant Reformation and the Dutch West India Company in the Atlantic World D. L . Noorl ander

Heaven’s Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across the seventeenth century. Noorlander argues that the church-company union encouraged destructive military operations against Catholic enemies abroad and divisive campaigns against sinners and religious nonconformers in colonial courts. Religious fervor, violence, and intolerance imposed financial and demographic costs that the small Dutch Republic and its people-strapped colonies could not afford. At the same time, the Reformed Church in the Netherlands undermined its own religious mission by trying to control from afar colonial hires, publications, and organization. Noorlander’s argument in Heaven’s Wrath questions core assumptions about why the Dutch failed to establish a durable empire in America. He downplays the usual commercial explanations and places the focus instead on the tremendous expenses incurred in Calvinist-backed war and the Reformed Church’s meticulous, worried management of colonial affairs. By pinpointing the issues that hampered the size and import of the Dutch Atlantic world, Noorlander is poised to revise standard notions about the organization and aims of the Dutch empire, the culture of the West India Company, and the very shape of Dutch society. D. L. Noorlander is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oneonta. Follow him on Twitter @ DLNoorlander.

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“This is an impressive, ambitious study that will change the conversation about religion, trade, and imperial expansion in the case of the Dutch. Heaven’s Wrath exceeds all other work on the topic.”— Evan Haefeli, Texas A&M University, author of New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty “D. L. Noorlander has written an effective, strongly argued examination of the Dutch Republic and the colonial enterprise of the West India Company.”—Hans Krabbendam, Radboud University, author of Freedom on the Horizon “Heaven’s Wrath shows D. L. Noorlander’s mastery of the theme connecting the Dutch West India Company and the Reformed Church. This is work of the highest quality.”—Willem Frijhoff, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, author of Fulfilling God’s Mission

Rough Draft Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance Amy J. Rutenberg

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The availability of deferments for this group mushroomed between 1945 and 1965, making it less and less likely that middle-class white men would serve in the Cold War army. Meanwhile, officials used the War on Poverty to target poorer and racialized men for conscription in the hopes that military service would offer them skills they could use in civilian life. As Rutenberg shows, manpower policies between World War II and the Vietnam War had unintended consequences. While some men resisted military service in Vietnam for reasons of political conscience, most did so because manpower polices made it possible. By shielding middle-class breadwinners in the name of national security, policymakers militarized certain civilian roles—a move that, ironically, separated military service from the obligations of masculine citizenship and, ultimately, helped kill the draft in the United States. Amy J. Rutenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. Follow her on Twitter @amyjay401.

“Lively and accessible, Rough Draft challenges the conventional wisdom about Americans’ commitment to military service, the motivations behind Vietnamera draft resistance, and the construction of appropriate roles for men in post-World War II society. It will be read by armchair historians and students of military and gender studies alike.”—Heather Stur, University of Southern Mississippi, author of The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II “A superb addition to any course evaluating the relationships between war and American society. Well-written and tightly argued, Rutenberg illuminates the problems of social mobilization into the armed forces during the Cold War era, all the while contesting the popular memory of the ‘Greatest Generation.’”—Gregory A. Daddis, Chapman University, author of Westmoreland’s War

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New York History Volume 100, No. 1

Since 1932, New York History has served as the foremost scholarly journal on the state’s past. New York History, now under the leadership of the Cornell University Press, and working closely with staff from the New York State Museum, seeks to unify the diverse field of New York State history and meet the needs of a growing historical community that includes scholars, public historians, museum professionals, local government historians, and those seeking an in-depth look at the Empire State’s history. New York History strives to promote and interpret the state’s history through the publication of historical research and case studies dealing with New York State, as well as, its relationship to national and international events. New York History, published twice a year, presents articles dealing with every aspect of New York State history, and reviews of books, exhibitions, and media projects with a New York focus. The Editorial Board actively solicits articles, essays, reports from the field and case studies that support this mission.

Editorial Board: Robert Chiles, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Maryland; Devin Lander, New York State Historian;Jennifer Lemak, Chief Curator of History, New York State Museum; Michael J. McGandy, Senior Editor, Cornell University Press (ex officio); Aaron Noble, Senior Historian and Curator, New York State Museum

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Making the Unipolar Moment U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the PostCold War Order Hal Br ands

FOREIGN AFFAIRS OUTSTANDING NEW BOOK, 2017

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post–World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America’s global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; democracy and free markets were spreading like never before. The United States was now enjoying its “unipolar moment”—an era in which Washington faced no near-term rivals for global power and inf luence, and one in which the defining feature of international politics was American dominance. How did this remarkable turnaround occur, and what role did US foreign policy play in causing it? In this important book, Hal Brands uses recently declassified archival materials to tell the story of American resurgence. Brands weaves together the key threads of global change and US policy from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, examining the Cold War struggle with Moscow, the rise of a more integrated and globalized world economy, the rapid advance of human rights and democracy, and the emergence of new global challenges like Islamic extremism and international terrorism. Brands reveals how deep structural changes in the international system interacted with strategies pursued by Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush to usher in an era of reinvigorated and in many ways unprecedented American primacy. Making the Unipolar Moment provides an indispensable account of how the post–Cold War order that we still inhabit came to be. Hal Brands is Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is author of What Good Is Grand Strategy?

“Hal Brands has catapulted into the foremost ranks of a new generation of US strategic thinkers.”—Foreign Affairs “If you want to see how far we came from the edge of ruin—and how far we’re falling from the achievements of the 1990s—this carefully researched book is essential reading.”—The Federalist’s Notable Books of 2016 “Making the Unipolar Moment is an impressive work of historical research, analysis, and interpretation. It is also an indispensable resource that points towards areas of new inquiry for scholars who seek to understand the central debates about structure, strategy, and power in US foreign relations.”—Diplomatic History “In this beautifully crafted, cogent, and thoroughly researched book, Hal Brands offers a compelling explanation for this stunning reversal of US fortunes.”—Journal of American History

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Citizen Bachelors Manhood and the Creation of the United States John Gilbert McCurdy

In a sweeping examination of the bachelor in early America, McCurdy fleshes out a largely unexamined aspect of the history of gender. McCurdy shows that in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the bachelor was a simultaneously suspicious and desirable figure: suspicious because he was not tethered to family and household obligations yet desirable because he was free to study, devote himself to political office, and fight and die in battle. He suggests that this dichotomy remains with us to this day and thus it is in early America that we find the origins of the modern-day identity of the bachelor as a symbol of masculine independence. McCurdy also observes that by extending citizenship to bachelors, the founders affirmed their commitment to individual freedom, a commitment that has subsequently come to define the very essence of American citizenship. John Gilbert McCurdy is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University.

“McCurdy has done a marvelous job of highlighting the newborn independence of early American bachelors.”—American Historical Review “McCurdy succeeds brilliantly in showing how the legal standing of ‘bachelors’ changed over the course of the colonial and revolutionary eras. . . . Drawing enlightening comparisons between New England, the Chesapeake, and Pennsylvania, he is able to show how laws across the colonies were moving in a similar direction . . . [as they] collectively began to carve a space for adult single men in society. McCurdy also unearths some fascinating snapshots of the subjective experience of bachelorhood.”—Rodney Hessinger, Men and Masculinities “Extensively researched and lucidly written. . . . An illuminating and substantial work which should be of interest to historians of gender relations in early modern England, colonial British America, and the early American republic.”—The English Historical Review

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Crossing Broadway Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City Robert W. Snyder

Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed “Frankfurt on the Hudson” for its large population of German Jews became “Quisqueya Heights”—the home of the nation’s largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City’s long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan’s journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.

“In Crossing Broadway Robert Snyder eloquently traces the demographic metamorphosis of upper Manhattan and invokes what the sociologist Robert J. Sampson called ‘collective efficacy’ to explain the community’s uplifting but bittersweet comeback.”—The New York Times “Amazing.”—Brian Lehrer, The Brian Lehrer Show “A fascinating new book.”—Errol Louis, Inside City Hall, NY1

Robert W. Snyder is Associate Professor of Journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University–Newark. He is the author of Transit Talk and The Voice of the City and coauthor of Metropolitan Lives.

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“Follow the Flag” A History of the Wabash Railroad Company H. Roger Gr ant

“Follow the Flag” offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. This book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the “Heart of America.”

“A major contribution to our understanding of American railroad development. . . . Railroad historians and those interested in American business and economic development will find much to intrigue and inform them.”—The Journal of American History ”One of the best in the genre of traditional corporate history. For historians of transportation, business, labor, or even medicine, there is much to recommend it. If only we had histories of the several dozen other major US railroads that were as good as this one.”—Technology and Culture “Follow the Flag reaffirms Roger Grant’s status as one of the preeminent historians of transportation in the United States. . . . Rail fans surely will love this book.”—Enterprise & Society ”A well-written, in-depth history of the railroad.”—Trains Magazine

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS OCTOBER

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From Willard Straight to Wall Street A Memoir Thomas W. Jones

In stark and compelling prose, Thomas W. Jones tells his story as a campus revolutionary who led an armed revolt at Cornell University in 1969 and then altered his course over the next fifty years to become a powerful leader in the financial industry including high-level positions at John Hancock, TIAA-CREF and Citigroup as Wall Street plunged into its darkest hour. From Willard Straight to Wall Street provides a front row seat to the author’s triumphs and struggles as he was twice investigated by the SEC—and emerged unscathed. His searing perspective as an African American navigating a world dominated by whites reveals a father, a husband, a trusted colleague, a Cornellian, and a business leader who confronts life with an unwavering resolve that defies cliché and offers a unique perspective on the issues of race in America today. The book begins on the steps of Willard Straight Hall where Jones and his classmates staged an occupation for two days that demanded a black studies curriculum at Cornell. The Straight Takeover resulted in the resignation of Cornell President James Perkins with whom Jones reconciled years later. Jones witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Centers on 9/11 from his office at ground zero and then observed firsthand the wave of scandals that swept the banking industry over the next decade. From Willard Straight to Wall Street reveals one of the most interesting American stories of the last fifty years. Thomas W. Jones is founder and senior partner of venture capital investment firm TWJ Capital. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Global Investment Management at Citigroup; Vice Chairman, President, and Chief Operating Officer at TIAA-CREF; and Senior Vice-President and Treasurer at John Hancock Insurance Company. Jones received Masters degrees from Cornell University and Boston University, and holds honorary doctoral degrees from Howard University, Pepperdine University, and College of New Rochelle.

“From Willard Straight to Wall Street is a marvelous, compelling story for black and minority youth to learn what can be achieved, and for whites to understand and recognize the multi-talented contributions of a black man. Above all, this story is for those who need to believe in the power of striving for excellence in all they do.”—Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., Chairman and CEO, TIAA-CREF, 1987–1993 “Jones tells his quintessentially American story with passion and conviction, and with a mixture of pride and regret. For a country still grappling with racial issues fifty years later, this is a seminal account of a life of dramatic action and religiously inspired thought.”—Hunter R. Rawlings III, Cornell University “This story will put to rest any notion that Wall Street is a fair, squeaky clean, meritocracy-based system that is team oriented and color blind. Tom rose above it and triumphed, in part due to his commitment to excellence. A great read by a wonderful man.”—Joseph Deane, Former Executive Vice President, PIMCO

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Hope and History A Memoir of Tumultuous Times William J. vanden Heuvel foreword by Dougl as Brinkley

Hope and History is both a memoir and a call-to-action for the renewal of faith in democracy and America. US Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel presents his most important public speeches and writings, compiled and presented over eight decades of adventure and public service, woven together with anecdotes of his colorful life as a second-generation American, a soldier, a lawyer, a political activist, and a diplomat. He touches upon themes that resonate as much today as they did when he first encountered them: the impact of heroes and mentors; the tragedy of the Vietnam War; the problems of racism and desegregation in America; tackling the crisis in America’s prisons; America and the Holocaust; and the plight and promise of the United Nations. Along the way, he allows us to share his journey with some of the great characters of American history: Eleanor Roosevelt, William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan, President John F. Kennedy and RFK, Harry S. Truman, and Jimmy Carter. Throughout, vanden Heuvel persuades us that there is still room for optimism in public life. He shows how individuals, himself among them, have tackled some of America’s most intractable domestic and foreign policy issues with ingenuity and goodwill, particularly under the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and those who sought and still seek to follow in his footsteps. He is not afraid to challenge the hatred and bigotry that are an unfortunate but undeniable part of the American fabric. He exhorts us to embrace all the challenges and opportunities that life in the United States can offer. William J. vanden Heuvel served as Deputy US Permanent Representative to the United Nations. A former president of the International Rescue Committee, he was Executive Assistant to General William J. Donovan, Special Counsel to Governor Averell Harriman, and Assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. He is the founder of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Ambassador vanden Heuvel is an international attorney and investment banker.

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“A well-respected American diplomat looks back on his life and career. . . . Clear and straightforward. . . he provides an interesting look at the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and the ‘revolution of rising expectations.’ . . . His memoir makes for hopeful reading.”—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> “Through this exquisite rendering of Bill vanden Heuvel’s remarkable life and career, readers will find exactly what the title suggests—hope in our troubled times. A dazzling cast of historical characters comes to life in these pages, including Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, JFK and RFK, James Baldwin, and Jimmy Carter. But the character who unites every chapter in this book is vanden Heuvel himself—a man whose career reminds us of how honorable public service can be.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin “Bill vanden Heuvel’s life has spanned a breath-taking part of our history as a nation—one that has influenced our present position in the world. When Bill tells a story, you feel like you’re living it with him. Reading this memoir will ignite a reflection on what we must do to move forward into this 21st century.” —Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Roosevelt Institute

A Fiery Gospel The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Road to Righteous War Richard M. Gamble

Since its composition in Washington’s Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer still think about the implications of that apocalyptic language for how Americans interpret who they are and what they owe the world. In A Fiery Gospel, Richard M. Gamble describes how this camp-meeting tune, paired with Howe’s evocative lyrics, became one of the most effective instruments of religious nationalism. He takes the reader back to the song’s origins during the Civil War, and reveals how those political and military circumstances launched the song’s incredible career in American public life. Gamble deftly considers the idea behind the song—humming the tune, reading the music for us—all while reveling in the multiplicity of meanings of and uses to which Howe’s lyrics have been put. “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” has been versatile enough to match the needs of Civil Rights activists and conservative nationalists, war hawks and peaceniks, as well as Europeans and Americans. This varied career shows readers much about the shifting shape of American righteousness. Yet it is, argues Gamble, the creator of the song herself—her Abolitionist household, Unitarian theology, and Romantic and nationalist sensibilities—that is the true conductor of this most American of war songs. A Fiery Gospel depicts most vividly the surprising genealogy of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and its sure and certain position as a cultural piece in the uncertain amalgam that was and is American civil religion.

“Lively. . . . Readers with an interest in 19th-century American religious and political popular culture will enjoy this biography of a hymn.”—Publishers Weekly “An accessible, engaging, and above all informative volume.”—The Collegian “A Fiery Gospel is a lively book that provides a convenient and poignant vehicle for exploring the subjects of American wars and the rationale for fighting them through the analysis of what was at first an insignificant poem.”—Darryl G. Hart, Hillsdale College, author of the forthcoming Between Heresy and Exceptionalism “Richard M. Gamble has written a complicated and fascinating book. His impressive interpretive skill makes A Fiery Gospel an excellent read.”—R. Laurence Moore, Cornell University, author of Touchdown Jesus

Richard M. Gamble is the Anna Margaret Ross Alexander Chair of History and Politics at Hillsdale College. He is author of In Search of the City on a Hill and The War for Righteousness.

RELIGION AND AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE

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Thomas Cole’s Refrain The Paintings of Catskill Creek H. Daniel Peck

Thomas Cole, an internationally renowned artist, centered his art and life in Catskill, New York. From his vantage point near the village, he cast his eyes on the wonders of the Catskill Mountains and the swiftly flowing Catskill Creek. These landscapes were sources of enduring inspiration for him. Over twenty years, Cole painted one view of the Catskill Mountains at least ten times. Each work represents the mountains from the perspective of a wide river bend near Catskill, New York. No other scene commanded this much of the artist’s attention. Cole’s Catskill Creek paintings, which include works central to American nineteenth-century landscape art, are an integral series. In Thomas Cole’s Refrain, H. Daniel Peck explores the patterns of change and permanence in the artist’s depiction of a scene he knew first-hand. Peck shows how the paintings express the artist’s deep attachment to place and region while illuminating his expansive imagination. Thomas Cole’s Refrain shows how Cole’s Catskill Creek paintings, while reflecting concepts such as the stages of life, opened a more capacious vision of experience than his narrative-driven series, such as The Voyage of Life. Relying on rich visual evidence provided by paintings, topographic maps, and contemporary photographs, Peck argues that human experience is conveyed through Cole’s embedding into a stable, recurring landscape key motifs that tell stories of their own. The motifs include enigmatic human figures, mysterious architectural forms, and particular trees and plants. Peck finds significant continuities—personal and conceptual—running throughout the Catskill Creek paintings, continuities that cast new light on familiar works and bring significance to ones never before seen by many viewers. H. Daniel Peck is John Guy Vassar, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English at Vassar College. He is the author and editor of several books, including Thoreau’s Morning Work.

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“Thoroughly researched and beautifully written.”—The Magazine Antiques “Dan Peck’s treatment of Thomas Cole’s Catskill pictures is a gem of small book. It is compact yet substantial, dense in detail yet lucid in exposition.”—John Wilmerding, author of Signs of the Artist “Writing with characteristic precision, eloquence, and authority, and drawing on his vast knowledge of American art, literature, and history, Dan Peck offers a captivating story with myriad fresh insights and uncanny contemporary relevance.”—Adrienne Baxter Bell, author of George Inness and the Visionary Landscape “A stunning reevaluation of one of Thomas Cole’s most beloved locales, in image and in text, Dan Peck’s insightful analysis captures the artist’s musings, concerns, and deep admiration for the Hudson River Valley.”—Nancy Siegel, Towson University

Enduring Alliance A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order Timothy Andrews Sayle

Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some sixty years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient strategic crisis, Timothy A. Sayle offers a sweeping history of the most critical alliance in the post-World War II era. In Enduring Alliance, Sayle recounts how the western European powers, along with the United States and Canada, developed a treaty to prevent encroachments by the Soviet Union and to serve as a first defense in any future military conflict. As the growing and unruly hodgepodge of countries, councils, commands, and committees inflated NATO during the Cold War, Sayle shows that the work of executive leaders, high-level diplomats, and institutional functionaries within NATO kept the alliance alive and strong in the face of changing administrations, various crises, and the flux of geopolitical maneuverings. Resilience and flexibility have been the true hallmarks of NATO. As Enduring Alliance deftly shows, the history of NATO is organized around the balance of power, preponderant military forces, and plans for nuclear war. But it is also the history riven by generational change, the introduction of new approaches to conceiving international affairs, and the difficulty of diplomacy for democracies. As NATO celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, the alliance once again faces challenges to its very existence even as it maintains its place firmly at the center of western hemisphere and global affairs. Timothy Andrews Sayle is Assistant Professor of History and a fellow of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and the Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History.

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“Sayle, a history professor at the University of Toronto, provides an in-depth analysis. . . . Through personal papers, cabinet memoranda, and other previously classifed documents retrieved from a dozen archives across North America and Europe, he contextualizes the personal perspectives of the alliance’s political, military, and diplomatic leadership. Countering a widely held public perception, Sayle persuasively makes the point that the primary fear among these leaders was not the Red Army crossing Germany’s Fulda Gap but rather the “problem of democracy” itself.”— Literary Review of Canada “Sayle’s book is a remarkably well-documented history of the NATO alliance. This is a worthwhile addition to the growing literature on NATO and a foundation for understanding its current challenges and prospects.”—Choice “A must-read for policymakers seeking to ensure the Pax Atlantic is the indispensable and truly enduring alliance of our times.”—Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret), Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, 2009–2013, and author, The Accidental Admiral

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The Sexual Economy of War Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army Andrew Byers

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ECONOMY OF In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to the military experience during a time of two global conflicts and numerous other army deployments. In this revealing study, Byers shows that none of the issues related to current debates about gender, sex, and the military— the inclusion of LGBTQ soldiers, sexual harassment and violence, the integration of women—is new at all. Framing the American story within an international context, he looks at case studies from the continental United States, Hawaii, the Philippines, France, and Germany. Drawing on internal army policy documents, soldiers’ personal papers, and disciplinary records used in criminal investigations, The Sexual Economy of War illuminates how the US Army used official policy, legal enforcement, indoctrination, and military culture to govern wayward sexual behaviors. Such regulation, and its active opposition, leads Byers to conclude that the tension between organizational control and individual agency has deep and tangled historical roots. Andrew Byers researches the history of the regulation of the human body and the intersection of science, sexuality, and law in civilian and military contexts.

BATTLEGROUNDS: CORNELL STUDIES IN MILITARY HISTORY

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DISCIPLINE AND DESIRE IN THE U.S. ARMY

ANDREW BYERS “Andrew Byers’s mastery of sources—most particularly in the United States Army’s courts-martial records—is rare. His book makes clear that the Army’s attempts to regulate sex, and the contests over how, why, and when to regulate it, matter a great deal.” —Beth Bailey, author of America’s Army “This is an excellent book, broad-ranging in scope and analysis, and eminently readable. Andrew Byers’s unpacking of American martial masculinity in the context of overseas deployment—colliding as it did with tropical environments and racial miscegenation—is especially astute.” —Bobby A. Wintermute, co-author of Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare

Quarters The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution John Gilbert McCurdy

When Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III “for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.” In Quarters, John Gilbert McCurdy explores the social and political history behind charge, offering an authoritative account of the housing of British soldiers in America. Providing new interpretations and analysis of the Quartering Act of 1765, McCurdy sheds light on a misunderstood aspect of the American Revolution. Quarters unearths the vivid debate in eighteenth-century America over the meaning of place. It asks why the previously uncontroversial act of accommodating soldiers in one’s house became an unconstitutional act. In so doing, Quarters reveals new dimensions of the origins of Americans’ right to privacy. It also traces the transformation of military geography in the lead up to independence, asking how barracks changed cities and how attempts to reorder the empire and the borderland led the colonists to imagine a new nation. Quarters emphatically refutes the idea that the Quartering Act forced British soldiers in colonial houses, demonstrates the effectiveness of the Quartering Act at generating revenue, and examines aspects of the law long ignored, such as its application in the backcountry and its role in shaping Canadian provinces. Above all, Quarters argues that the lessons of accommodating British troops outlasted the Revolutionary War, profoundly affecting American notions of place. McCurdy shows that the Quartering Act had significant ramifications, codified in the Third Amendment, for contemporary ideas of the home as a place of domestic privacy, the city as a place without troops, and a nation with a civilian-led military.

“Quarters is a magnificent book of relevance to colonial American and British imperial history; there is much to praise.” —Colin Nicolson, University of Stirling, author of The “Infamas Govener” and editor of the Bernard Papers “I have confidence that Quarters will become the authoritative text on military quartering in British colonial America due to its wide range throughout British America and its close attention to politics.” —Serena Zabin, Carleton College “Quarters is a seriously argued attempt to bring special thinking to one of the more important Parliamentary enactments of the 1760s.” —Peter Hoffer, University of Georgia, and author of The Supreme Court

John Gilbert McCurdy is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Citizen Bachelors.

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Arc of Containment Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia Wen-Qing Ngoei

Arc of Containment recasts the history of American empire in Southeast and East Asia from World War II through the end of American intervention in Vietnam. Setting aside the classic story of anxiety about falling dominoes, Wen-Qing Ngoei articulates a new regional history premised on strong security and sure containment guaranteed by Anglo-American cooperation. Ngoei argues that anticommunist nationalism in Southeast Asia intersected with preexisting local antipathy toward China and the Chinese diaspora to usher the region from European-dominated colonialism to US hegemony. Central to this revisionary strategic assessment is the place of British power and the effects of direct neocolonial military might and less overt cultural influences based in decades of colonial rule. Also essential to the analysis in Arc of Containment is the considerable influence of Southeast Asian actors upon Anglo-American imperial strategy throughout the post-war period. In Arc of Containment Ngoei shows how the pro-US trajectory of Southeast Asia after the Pacific War was, in fact, far more characteristic of the wider region’s history than American policy failure in Vietnam. Indeed, by the early 1970s, five key anticommunist nations—Malaya, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia—had quashed Chinese-influenced socialist movements at home and established, with US support, a geostrategic arc of states that contained the Vietnamese revolution and encircled China. Arc of Containment demonstrates that American failure in Vietnam had fewer long-term consequences than widely believed. In effect, Ngoei argues, the Cold War in Southeast Asia was but one violent chapter in the continuous history of western imperialism in the region in the twentieth century. Wen-Qing Ngoei is Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. His work has been published in Diplomatic History and the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

THE UNITED STATES IN THE WORLD

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“Arc of Containment is a genuine pleasure to read. Wen-Qing Ngoei deftly places the history of the Vietnam war in a larger regional perspective. He is able to show— very convincingly—that Vietnam was something of an anomaly.” —Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin, and author of Assuming the Burden “Wen-Qing Ngoei makes a persuasive case for the deeply connected colonial and post-colonial trajectories of Malaysia and Singapore’s neighbors. Ngoei’s book belongs in classes on US and British foreign relations, Southeast Asian politics, and history, and should be read by every scholar in these fields.” —Bradley Simpson, University of Connecticut, and author of Economists with Guns

When the Movies Mattered The New Hollywood Revisited edited by Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis

In When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable collection of authors to revisit the unique era in American cinema that was New Hollywood. Ten eminent contributors, some of whom wrote about the New Hollywood movement as it unfolded across the 1960s and 1970s, assess the convergence of film-industry developments and momentous social and political changes that created a new type of commercial film that reflected those revolutionary influences in American life. Even as New Hollywood first took shape, film industry insiders and commentators alike realized its significance. At the time, Pauline Kael compared the New Hollywood to the “tangled, bitter flowering of American letters in the 1850s” and David Thomson dubbed the era, “the decade when movies mattered.” Thomson’s words provide the impetus for this volume in which a cohort of seasoned film critics and scholars who came of age watching the movies of this era reflect upon and reconsider this golden age in American filmmaking. Jonathan Kirshner is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston College and the author of numerous books, including Hollywood’s Last Golden Age. Jon Lewis is the Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and University Honors College Eminent Professor at Oregon State University and the author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood, and several other books on film.

“Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis’ book is a work of high quality and should become required reading for undergraduate Film Studies courses.” —Julie Lobalzo Wright, University of Warwick, and author of Crossover Stardom “When the Movies Mattered is a compelling collection that will both enrich and challenge the general conception of the turbulent, endlessly fascinating New Hollywood era.” —Tom Schatz, University of Texas, Austin, and author of Boom and Bust

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The Instrumental University Education in Service of the National Agenda after World War II Ethan Schrum

In The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. The Instrumental University combines intellectual, institutional, and political history to reinterpret postwar American life through the changes in higher education. Acknowledging but rejecting the prevailing conception of the Cold War university largely dedicated to supporting national security, Schrum provides a more complete and contextualized account of the American research university between 1945 and 1970. Uncovering a pervasive instrumental understanding of higher education during that era, The Instrumental University shows that universities framed their mission around solving social problems and promoting economic development as central institutions in what would soon be called the knowledge economy. In so doing, these institutions took on more capitalistic and managerial tendencies and, as a result, marginalized founding ideals, such as pursuit of knowledge in academic disciplines and freedom of individual investigators. The technocratic turn eroded some practices that made the American university special. Yet, as Schrum suggests, the instrumental university was not yet the neoliberal university of the 1970s and onwards in which market considerations trumped all others. University of California president Clark Kerr and other innovators in higher education were driven by a progressive impulse that drew on an earlier tradition grounded in a concern for the common good and social welfare. Ethan Schrum is Assistant Professor of History at Azusa Pacific University and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. HISTORIES OF AMERICAN EDUCATION

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“Ethan Schrum addresses fundamental features of modern universities and, in that respect, this book could be the basis for a symposium. It is an important contribution to intellectual history, the history of social sciences, and the history of higher education.” —Roger Geiger, The Pennsylvania State University, author of The History of American Higher Education “Ethan Schrum has given us by far the most informative and convincing study we now have of the history of American universities since World War II. This conscientiously documented, morally sensitive book deserves to be the center of the coming generation’s debates about what universities can and should be.” —David Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley

The Dutch Moment War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World Wim Klooster

In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World. Indeed, the Dutch Atlantic was quintessentially interimperial, multinational, and multiracial. At the same time, it was an empire entirely designed to benefit the United Provinces. The pivotal colony in the Dutch Atlantic was Brazil, half of which was conquered by the Dutch West India Company. Its brief lifespan notwithstanding, Dutch Brazil (1630–1654) had a lasting impact on the Atlantic world. The scope of Dutch warfare in Brazil is hard to overestimate—this was the largest interimperial conflict of the seventeenth-century Atlantic. Brazil launched the Dutch into the transatlantic slave trade, a business they soon dominated. At the same time, Dutch Brazil paved the way for a Jewish life in freedom in the Americas after the first American synagogues opened their doors in Recife. In the end, the entire colony eventually reverted to Portuguese rule, in part because Dutch soldiers, plagued by perennial poverty, famine, and misery, refused to take up arms. As they did elsewhere, the Dutch lost a crucial colony because of the empire’s systematic neglect of the very soldiers on whom its defenses rested. Wim Klooster is Professor of History at Clark University. He is the author of Revolutions in the Atlantic World.

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“The definitive work on the subject. It is a wonderfully lively, thoroughly researched synthesis of the entire story of the rise and fall of the Dutch in the Atlantic. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries.”—Choice “Based on rigorous research in multiple languages. . . . A powerfully argued, impeccably documented, and important book.”—American Historical Review “Dazzling. . . The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field.”—Renaissance Quarterly “Klooster has magnificently captured the early Dutch steps into the Atlantic. . . . In the ongoing surge of Dutch Atlantic publications, Wim Klooster has taken center stage.”—BMGN–Low Countries Historical Review “Much more than a conventional study on the Dutch in the Atlantic world, Wim Klooster’s book presents a major synthesis that encompasses systematically all the aspects of life, activities, and presence of the Dutch in the North and South Atlantic. . . . A tremendous achievement.”—Journal of Early American History

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Elizabeth Seton American Saint Catherine O’Donnell

In 1975, Pope Paul VI canonized Elizabeth Ann Seton, making her the first native-born American saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Seton came of age in Manhattan as the city and her family struggled to rebuild themselves post-Revolution, explored philosophy and Christianity, converted to Catholicism from her Episcopalian faith, and built the St. Joseph’s Academy and Free School in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Hers was an early American life of struggle and faith, and in this flowing biography, Catherine O’Donnell gives Seton her due. O’Donnell places Seton in the context of the American and French Revolutions and their aftermath. Just as Seton’s life was studded with hardship, achievement, and grief, so were the social, economic, political, and religious scenes of the Early American Republic. O’Donnell illuminates this remarkable woman’s intelligence and compassion as she withstood her husband’s financial failures and untimely death, undertook conversion to Catholicism, and attempted to reconcile her single-minded faith with her respect for others’ choices. The fruit of her labors were the creation of a spirituality that embraced human connections and the American Sisters of Charity, an enduring global community with an apostolate for teaching. O’Donnell weaves together troves of correspondence, journals, and reflections throughout Elizabeth Seton, enriching our understanding of women’s friendships and choices and upending conventional wisdom about the ways Americans of different faiths competed and collaborated during the nation’s earliest years. Through her reading of Seton’s letters and journals, O’Donnell reveals Seton the person and how she came to understand herself as Mother Seton. Catherine O’Donnell is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. She is the author of Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship.

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“Elizabeth Seton is a thrilling achievement and a major contribution to our understanding of Catholicism during an enlightened age.” —John T. McGreevy, author of American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global “The manifest appeal of Elizabeth Seton stems not only from Catherine O’Donnell’s beautifully crafted narrative, but also the display of the exuberance of Elizabeth’s temperament, talents, holiness, and the intensity of her love of God.” —Sister Betty Ann McNeil, DC, editor of Friendship of My Soul: Selected Letters of Elizabeth Ann Seton “Elizabeth Seton was an American original, and Catherine O’Donnell does this complex and compelling figure full justice.” —John Loughery, author of Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America

The Clamor of Lawyers The American Revolution and Crisis in the Legal Profession Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer

The Clamor of Lawyers explores a series of extended public pronouncements that British North American colonial lawyers crafted between 1761 and 1776. Most, though not all, were composed outside of the courtroom and detached from on-going litigation. While they have been studied as political theory, these writings and speeches are rarely viewed as the work of active lawyers, despite the fact that key protagonists in the story of American independence were members of the bar with extensive practices. The American Revolution was, in fact, a lawyers’ revolution. Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer broaden our understanding of the role that lawyers played in framing and resolving the British imperial crisis. The revolutionary lawyers, including John Adams’s idol James Otis, Jr., Pennsylvania’s John Dickinson, and Virginians Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, along with Adams and others, deployed the skills of their profession to further the public welfare in challenging times. They were the framers of the American Revolution and the governments that followed. Loyalist lawyers and lawyers for the crown also participated in this public discourse, but because they lost out in the end, their arguments are often slighted or ignored in popular accounts. This division within the colonial legal profession is central to understanding the American Republic that resulted from the Revolution. Peter Charles Hoffer has taught early American history at Ohio State University, the University of Notre Dame, and Georgia, the latter since 1978. He is the author of John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850. Williamjames Hull Hoffer was a Henry Rutgers scholar at Rutgers University in New Brunswick before he entered law school, receiving both his JD and PhD He now teaches at Seton Hall University. He is co-author of The Federal Courts: An Essential History.

“Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hoffer present an intriguing picture of the role of law and the legal profession in the Revolutionary generation. The Clamor of Lawyers is a powerful contribution to our understanding of that generation.” —Lawrence M. Friedman, author of A History of American Law “The Clamor of Lawyers provides evidence that, as early as the Revolution, lawyers formed America’s aristocracy. As lawyers framed the dispute with Britain in terms of rights, law formed a new national discourse and the basis of a nation of laws not men. Entertaining, clear, and succinct, I recommend this book to students, scholars, and general history readers alike.” —Mark McGarvie, author of Law and Religion in American History “The Clamor of Lawyers is a rich history and a multidimensional story of the role of law and lawyers in the nation’s founding.” —Daniel Hulsebosch, author of Constituting Empire

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The Rise and Decline of the American Century William O. Walker III

In 1941, the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation’s leaders to create an American Century. But in the era after World War II, proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Even so, Luce had articulated an animating idea that, as William O. Walker III skillfully shows in The Rise and Decline of the American Century, would guide US foreign policy through the years of hot and cold war. The American Century was, Walker argues, the counterbalance to defensive war during World War II and the containment of communism during the Cold War. American policymakers pursued an aggressive agenda to extend US influence around the globe through control of economic markets, reliance on nation building, and, where necessary, provision of arms to allied forces. This positive program for the expansion of American power, Walker deftly demonstrates, came in for widespread criticism by the late 1950s. A changing world, epitomized by the nonaligned movement, challenged US leadership and denigrated the market democracy at the heart of the ideal of the American Century. Walker analyzes the international crises and monetary troubles that further curtailed the reach of the American Century in the early 1960s and brought it to a halt by the end of that decade. By 1968, it seemed that all the United States had to offer to allies and non-hostile nations was convenient military might, nuclear deterrence, and the uncertainty of détente. Once the dust had settled on Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency and Richard M. Nixon had taken office, what remained was, The Rise and Decline of the American Century shows, an adulterated, strategically-based version of Luce’s American Century. Willia m O. Walker III was Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is retired and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has published extensively on US-Latin American relations and is the author of National Security and Core Values in American History.

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“The Rise and Decline of the American Century is a provocative and original interpretation of American foreign relations history. It shows, in abundance, how a skilled, seasoned scholar can take a trope (the American Century) and play it out over a large chunk of history. William Walker’s work is of the highest level.” —Thomas W. Zeiler, author of Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II “I enjoy reading ambitious, synthetic works of history such as The Rise and Decline of the American Century and I truly admire the verve with which William Walker makes his case.” —David Milne, author of Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy “Regaling readers with his mastery of the literature and his elegant prose, Walker argues that the United States did not unite a ‘free world’ against communism after World War II but rather actively sought hegemony over it, often bewildering allies in the process. Outsized ambitions ensured that Henry Luce’s American Century would last but a quarter of that time.” —Alan McPherson, author of The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended US Occupation

The Experts’ War on Poverty Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America Romain D. Huret tr ansl ated by John Angell

In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell’s translation of Huret’s work illuminates for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government, academic institutions, and think tanks. Their efforts to create a policy bureaucracy to support federal socio-economic action spanned from the last days of the New Deal to the late 1960s when President Richard M. Nixon implemented the Family Assistance Plan. Often toiling in obscurity, this cadre of experts waged their own war on poverty and the American political establishment. Their policy recommendations, as Huret shows, often militated against the unscientific prejudices and electoral calculations that ruled Washington DC politics. The Experts’ War on Poverty highlights the metrics, research, and economic and social facts these social scientists employed, and reveals the unstable institutional foundation of successive executive efforts to grapple with gross social and economic disparities in the United States. Huret argues that this internal war, at a time of great disruption due to the Cold War, undermined and fractured the institutional system officially directed at ending poverty. The official War on Poverty was thus fomented and maintained by a group of experts determined to fight poverty in radical ways that outstripped both the operational capacity of the federal government and the political will of a succession of presidents.

“This unique book looks at experts who used empirical methods to measure the extent of poverty in America during the fifties and early sixties. Working in disparate places—foundations, government bureaus, and universities—they formed an intellectual network with considerable influence over the nation’s approach to poverty. This carefully researched book adds a great deal to our understanding of the war on poverty and should command the attention of policy historians on both sides of the Atlantic.” —Edward Berkowitz, Professor Emeritus, George Washington University

Romain D. Huret is a member of the Center for North American Studies at the School for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences and is Assistant Professor of American History at the University of Lyon. He is the author, most recently, of American Tax Resisters. John Angell is a translator for Vice Versa Language Services and teaches English at Paris 3/Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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To Build as Well as Destroy American Nation Building in South Vietnam Andrew J. Gaw thorpe

For years, the “better war” school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War, and that it was only the military “abandonment” of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed, incisive analysis, shows that the United States failed in its efforts at nation-building and had not established a viable state in South Vietnam. Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of US military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates the US never came close to achieving victory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gawthorpe tells a story of policy aspirations and practical failures that stretches from Washington, DC, to the Vietnamese villages in which the US implemented its nation-building strategy. Structural factors which could not have been overcome by the further application of military power thwarted US efforts to build a viable set of non-communist political, economic, and social institutions in South Vietnam. To Build as Well as Destroy provides the most comprehensive account yet of the largest and best-resourced nation-building program in US history. Gawthorpe’s analysis helps contemporary policy makers, diplomats, and military officers understand the reasons for this failure. At a moment in time when American strategists are grappling with military and political challenges in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, revisiting the historical lessons of Vietnam is a worthy endeavor. Andrew J. Gaw thorpe is University Lecturer at Leiden University. He previously held positions as a teaching fellow at the UK Defence Academy, a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a civil servant in the British Cabinet Office. His work appears in Foreign Affairs, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Stars and Stripes, and The National Interest.

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“Andrew Gawthorpe’s book is an excellent study of the CORDS program implemented by the United States in Vietnam between 1967–1973. I know of no other book that covers the pacification effort in such detail. This work is a significant contribution to the literature on American nation-building efforts in Vietnam.” —Gregory A. Daddis, author of Withdrawal: Reassessing America’s Final Years in Vietnam “Andrew J. Gawthorpe brilliantly and convincingly demonstrates that Vietnam was no lost victory. In To Build as Well as Destroy, he shows that, despite the assurances of counterinsurgency technocrats, T.E. Lawrence folklorists, and nation-building soldiers, pacification proved to be a failed doctrine for a failed war.” —Douglas Porch, author of Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War

Borderline Citizens The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration Robert C. McGreevey

Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of US colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various groups—employers, colonial officials, court officers, and labor leaders—policing the borders of the US economy and polity. Borderline Citizens deftly shows the dynamic and contested meaning of American citizenship. At a time when colonial officials sought to limit citizenship through the definition of Puerto Rico as a US territory, Puerto Ricans tested the boundaries of colonial law when they migrated to California, Arizona, New York, and other states on the mainland. The conflicts and legal challenges created when Puerto Ricans migrated to the US mainland thus serve, McGreevey argues, as essential, if overlooked, evidence crucial to understanding US empire and citizenship. McGreevey demonstrates the value of an imperial approach to the history of migration. Drawing attention to the legal claims migrants made on the mainland, he highlights the agency of Puerto Rican migrants and the efficacy of their efforts to find an economic, political, and legal home in the United States. At the same time, Borderline Citizens demonstrates how colonial institutions shaped migration streams through a series of changing colonial legal categories that tracked alongside corporate and government demands for labor mobility. McGreevey describes a history shaped as much by the force of US power overseas as by the claims of colonial migrants within the United States.

“Robert McGreevey offers original insights and deepens our understanding of the contours of US citizenship, and the multi-layered nature of labor migration. Borderline Citizens brings together empire and migration, illustrates the complex and interconnected web of US migration history, and depicts the continuing legacy of US empire in the Caribbean well into the twentieth century in an effective manner. This is a compelling contribution to the literatures on US empire, immigration history, legal history and labor history.” —Mary Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences

Robert C. McGreevey is Associate Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. He is the co-author of Global America: The United States in the Twentieth Century, with Christopher T. Fisher and Alan Dawley.

T H E U N I T E D S TAT E S I N T H E W O R L D

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Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education Nathan M. Sorber

The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the motivations and goals of land-grant institutions. In Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt Sorber uncovers the intersection of class interest and economic context, and its influence on the origins, development, and standardization of land-grant colleges. The first land-grant colleges supported by the Morrill Act of 1862 assumed a role in facilitating the rise of a capitalist, industrial economy and a modern, bureaucratized nation-state. The new land-grant colleges contributed ideas, technologies, and technical specialists that supported emerging industries. During the populist revolts chronicled by Sorber, the land-grant colleges became a battleground for resisting many aspects of this transition to modernity. An awakened agricultural population challenged the movement of people and power from the rural periphery to urban centers and worked to reform land-grant colleges to serve the political and economic needs of rural communities. These populists embraced their vocational, open-access land-grant model as a bulwark against the outmigration of rural youth from the countryside, and as a vehicle for preserving the farm, the farmer, and the local community at the center of American democracy. Sorber’s history of the movement and society of the time provides an original framework for understanding the origins of the land-grant colleges and the nationwide development of these schools into the twentieth century. Nathan M. Sorber is Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for the Future of Land-Grant Education at West Virginia University. He is the co-author of LandGrant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education.

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“Nathan M. Sorber’s impressive study unearths the deep roots of the nation’s early land-grant colleges, revealing how the sector endured and thrived in the face of relentless political and social challenges.” —Christopher Loss, author of Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century “Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt breaks new ground. It makes a significant contribution to a new line of scholarly inquiry that is developing a more nuanced and critical—and less naïve, linear, and romantic—understanding of the history of a key sector in American higher education.” —Scott J. Peters, author of Democracy and Higher Education

Charles Austin Beard The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism Richard Dr ake

Richard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard’s life and work. The foremost American historian and a leading public intellectual in the first half of the twentieth century, Beard participated actively in the debates about American politics and foreign policy surrounding the two world wars. Drake takes this famous man’s life and rewrites his intellectual biography by placing the European dimension of Beard’s thought at the center. This radical change of critical focus allows Drake to correct previous biographers’ oversights and, in Charles Austin Beard, present a far more nuanced appreciation for Beard’s life than we have read before. Drake proposes a restoration of Beard’s professional reputation, which he lost in large part because of his extremely unpopular opposition to America’s intervention in World War II. Drake analyzes the stages of Beard’s development as a historian and critic: his role as an intellectual leader in the Progressive movement, the support that he gave to the cause of American intervention in World War I, and his subsequent revisionist repudiation of Wilsonian ideals and embrace of non-interventionism in the lead-up to World War II. Many of his dire predictions about the inevitable consequences of pre-World War II American foreign policy have come to pass. Drake shows that, as Americans tally the ruinous costs—both financial and moral—of nation-building and informal empire, the life and work of this prophet of history merit a thorough reexamination.

“Charles Beard was a fascinating thinker and historian, and deserves the scholarly attention given to him by Richard Drake. Drake’s book provides an important service in reintroducing us to Beard the anti-imperialist, a needed return.” —Andrew Hartman, author of A War for the Soul of America “Richard Drake has written more than a biography of Charles Beard, rather an intellectual history. I don’t think anyone will ever do the Beard ‘story’ as well as Drake.” —Lloyd Gardner, author of Road to Tahrir Square: Egypt and the United States from the Rise of Nasser to the Fall of Mubarak

Richard Dr ake is the Lucile Speer Research Chair in Politics and History at the University of Montana. He has published a number of books, including, most recently, The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert La Follette and U.S. Expansion.

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American Labyrinth Intellectual History for Complicated Times edited by R aymond Haberski, Jr. & Andrew Hartman

American Labyrinth demonstrates the power of intellectual history to illuminate our public life and examine our ideological assumptions. This volume of essays brings together 19 influential intellectual historians to contribute original thoughts on topics of widespread interest. Raymond Haberski Jr. and Andrew Hartman asked a group of nimble, sharp scholars to respond to a simple question: How might the resources of intellectual history help shed light on contemporary issues with historical resonance? The answers—all rigorous, original, and challenging—are as eclectic in approach and temperament as the authors are different in their interests and methods. Taken together, the essays of American Labyrinth illustrate how intellectual historians, operating in many different registers at once and ranging from the theoretical to the political, can provide telling insights for understanding a public sphere fraught with conflict. In order to understand why people are ready to fight over cultural symbols and political positions we must have insight into how ideas organize, enliven, and define our lives. Ultimately, as Haberski and Hartman show in this volume, the best route through our contemporary American labyrinth is the path that traces our practical and lived ideas. R aymond Haberski Jr., is Professor of History and Director of American Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. He is the author of five books, including God and War. Andrew Hartman is Professor of History at Illinois State University. He is the author of two books, most recently, A War for the Soul of America.

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