Title: Behind the throne : servants of power to imperial presidents, 1898-1968 /
Authors: McCormick, Thomas J.; LaFeber, Walter.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Presidents United States Staff History; United States Foreign relations; United States Territorial expansion.; United States Officials and employees Biography.
Abstract: During the American rise to world power in the last hundred years, a new presidency has also arisen, a presidency that uses military, economic, political, and personal power that the constitutional founders of the 1780s would have thought highly improbable and dangerous. Behind the Throne argues that United States presidents have received foreign policy advice from a new breed of government servants whose first loyalties were to the chief executive, not the bureaucracy or the public. These "servants of power" defined world views for the president, not only advising but often taking action to implement those world views. The essays in this volume focus on nine servants of power. Brooks Adams, brother of Henry Adams and advisor to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, greatly influenced early American expansionist thinking by supporting Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis.^
Contents: Brooks Adams and American expansion / William A. Williams -- Charles A. Conant, economic crises and Foreign Policy, 1896-1903 / Carl Parrini -- Admiral William B. Caperton : proconsul and diplomat / David Healy -- Thomas W. Lamont : international banker as diplomat / Robert Freeman Smith -- Walking the tightrope : Adolf A. Berle and America's journey from social to global capitalism, 1933-1945 / Thomas J. McCormick -- Thomas C. Mann and the Devolution of Latin American Policy : from the good neighbor to military intervention / Walter LaFeber -- Harry Hopkins with hand grenades : McGeorge Bundy in the Kennedy and Johnson years / Lloyd Gardner -- And then there were none : how Arthur H. Bandenberg and Gerald P. Nye separately departed isolationist leadership roles / Wayne S. Cole.