Imperial brotherhood
Subtitle: gender and the making of Cold War foreign policy
By: Robert D. Dean.
Series: Culture, politics, and the cold war
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amherst, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Masculinity -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Sex role -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- Social aspects.
Description: "This book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers - men who prided themselves on hard-headed pragmatism and shunned "fuzzy" idealism - could have committed the nation to such a ruinous, costly, and protracted war? The answer, he argues, lies not simply in the imperatives of anticommunist ideology or in any reasonable calculation of national interest.

At least as decisive in determining the form and content of American Cold War foreign policy were the common background and shared values of its makers, especially their deeply ingrained sense of upper-class masculinity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.