National Security and Core Values in American History
"In the tradition of William Appleman Williams, National Security and Core Values represents a broad and provocative interpretation of America's role abroad since its founding over three centuries ago. U.S. leaders, William Walker contends, abandoned the nation's core values, such as republican virtue, in the pursuit of national security, which in reality became aggressive expansion and even empire. Walker offers an intellectual tour de force that shows a deep understanding of foreign relations and the domestic causes and consequences of U.S. actions abroad." -Robert Buzzanco, University of Houston"Drawing from his masterful big picture of U.S. global expansionism over 400 years, and especially the past century, Walker clearly explains how Americans' unexamined belief that their own supposed exceptionalism (in both their economics and politics) propelled that expansionism - which climaxed with the tragic failures in the post-1960s era, particularly those of the George W. Bush administration." -  Walter LaFeber, Cornell University"Although inspired by the critical writings of William Appleman Williams and Charles  Beard, William O. Walker III offers in this ambitious book his own unique and disturbing interpretation of the full sweep of the history of American foreign relations." -David S. Patterson, Journal of American History"...offers an outstanding interpretation, in the tradition of William  Appleman Williams, of America's evolving role abroad ... Walker's work  must be recognized as an outstanding piece of scholarship that traces  the path of both American values and national security from colonial  times to the present and that will benefit readers for decades to  come." -- Abraham R. Wagner, Reviews in American History"National Security and Core Values in American History is an  important book. It tackles issues of contemporary significance within  a broad historical context, which is built on an extensive secondary  literature, as well as select primary documents." -Gary R. Hess, H-Policy"..an important book. It tackles issues of contemporary signicance  within a broad historical context, which is built on an extensive  secondary literature, as well as select primary documents. Walker  covers a broader sweep of American foreign policy than his  predecessors ... [his] thoughtful and thorough critique of the  American quest for security ranks with the best of contemporary calls  for reconsideration of the tenets of national security policy."  - Gary Hess, H-Policy