The irony of virtue
Subtitle: ethics and American power
By: Ernest W. Lefever ; foreword by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Political ethics; United States -- Foreign relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: In this first-ever anthology of his most important work, Lefever takes a bold and lively march through the second half of the twentieth century. As an acute participant-observer who cares deeply about peace, freedom, and human dignity, Lefever became a neoconservative twenty years before Irving Kristol coined the term. For this volume, Lefever selected forty of his most influential essays from some 500 published pieces.

They reveal his dramatic transformation from a liberal pacifist during World War II to a human realist.
Notes: Includes index.