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050	1	4	_a _bAP648 1984
100	1		_aAppleman Williams, William
245	0	0	_aThe Tragedy of American Diplomacy / _cWilliam Appleman Williams
260			_aNew York : _bNorton & Company, _c1984
300			_a334 p. : _b19 cm.
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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.
520			_aOne 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.
650		0	_aUnited States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
650		0	_aInternational relations.
650		0	_aUnited States.
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