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What good is grand strategy? : power and purpose in American statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush / Hal Brands.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Description: xiii, 273 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801456732
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E744 .B6975 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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General Collection Main Campus Library General Stacks E744 .B6975 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00021635

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.

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