Between virtue and power
Subtitle: the persistent moral dilemma of U.S. foreign policy
By: John Kane.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780300137125
Subjects: Imperialism -- History; Virtue -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History; United States -- Foreign relations; United States -- Foreign relations -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States -- Foreign relations -- Philosophy; United States -- Territorial expansion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins and significance of the American mythology; title: Founding a virtuous republic; title: Problems of virtue and power; title: Nonentanglement : the economic dimension; title: Nonentanglement : the political dimension; title: Innocent virtue and the conquest of a continent; title: From imperialism to world peace; title: Woodrow Wilson and the reign of virtue; title: Disillusionment and hope; title: American isolation; title: American virtue and the Soviet challenge; title: Anticommunism and American virtue; title: Cold War ironies; title: Vietnam : virtue stained, power humbled; title: Putting Humpty together again; title: Offended innocence, righteous wrath.