TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appleman Williams,William
TI  - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
SN  - 9780393304930
PY  - 1984///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton & Company
KW  - United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
KW  - International relations
KW  - United States
N1  - Introduction : history and the transcendence of the tragic --  Imperial anticolonialism. The transformation of the expanionist outlook ; The crisis of the 1890s and the turn to imperialism --  The imperialism of idealism --  The rising tide of revolution --  The legend of isolationism. A great debate over the tactics of empire ; The internationalization of business --  The war for the American frontier --  The nightmare of depression and the vision of omnipotence. Roosevelt and Stalin confront the dilemmas of victory ; The Open Door Policy and the onset of the Cold War ; A new vision of omnipotence and a misreading of history prompt the United States to overplay its hand ; The diplomacy of the vicious circle --  The impotence of nuclear supremacy --  The terrifying momentum toward disaster --  Conclusion : the wisdom of an Open Door for revolutions --  "The tragedy of Ameican diplomacy" : twenty-five years after / by Bradford Perkins
N2  - One of the first modern historians to integrate economic realities into the study of American foreign policy, William Appleman has been a diplomatic historian of major influence since the first publication of the Tragedy of American Diplomacy. In this pioneering book, " the man who has really put the counter - tradition together in its modern form " ( Saturday Review ) examines the profound contradictions between Americas's ideals and its uses of its vast power, from the Open Door Notes of 1898 to the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam war
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