TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brands,Hal
TI  - What good is grand strategy?: power and purpose in American statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush 
SN  - 9780801456732
AV  - E744 .B6975 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-259) and index; Introduction : the meaning and challenge of grand strategy -- The golden age revisited : the Truman administration and the evolution of containment -- Travails of the heroic statesmen : grand strategy in the Nixon-Kissinger years -- American statecraft in the late Cold War : was there a Reagan grand strategy? -- The dangers of being grand : George W. Bush and the post-9/11 era -- Conclusion : grappling with grand strategy
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42049
ER  -