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  • The United States and NATO

    The Formative Years

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was one of the most important accomplishments of American diplomacy in countering the Soviet threat during the early days of the Cold War. Why and how such a reversal of a 150-year nonalignment policy by the United States was brought about, and how the goals of the treaty became a reality, are questions addressed here by a leading scholar of ... En savoir plus

    $14.29 CAD

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Westward the Course of Empire

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Collections series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
    This biography of one of America's greatest political figures focuses on Thomas Jefferson's role as a maker of foreign policy. Although he was not the sole formulator of American diplomacy, Jefferson's voice was the most pervasive in the first generation of the republic's history. This text explores how the concept of the United States' westward expansion worked as the moving force in forming ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD

  • The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961-1965

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan, Ronald D. Landa, Edward J. Drea ...
    Collections series History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
    The McNamara Ascendancy, the first of two volumes in the History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense dealing with the tenure of Robert S. McNamara, examines the dynamic, sometimes turbulent early years of his secretaryship under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Few secretaries of defense before or since entered the Pentagon with such a commanding start or left behind a more ... En savoir plus

    $4.11 CAD

  • The Legacy of the Cold War

    Perspectives on Security, Cooperation, and Conflict

    par Willlem van Eekelen, Vincent Keating, Vojtech Mastny, Daniel Möckli, Nicholas Wheeler, Zhu Liqun, Huang Yuxing, Andreas Wenger, Mark Kramer0, Douglas Craig1, Malcolm Byrne2, Lawrence S. Kaplan3, William R. Keylor4, Robert J. McMahon5 ...
    Collections series The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
    The unexpected end of the protracted conflict has been a sobering experience for scholars. No theory had anticipated how the Cold War would be terminated, and none should also be relied upon to explicate its legacy. But instead of relying on preconceived formulas to project past developments, taking a historical perspective to explain their causes and consequences allows one to better understand ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg

    From Isolation to International Engagement

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Collections series Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on the world stage. Much has been written about the influential figures who stood at the center of this transformation, but remarkably ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Harold Stassen

    Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Collections series Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
    Harold Stassen (1907–2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr. during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, Stassen was named director of the Mutual Security Administration and then became the president's special assistant for disarmament. In this position, ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Alexander Hamilton

    Ambivalent Anglophile

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    Collections series Biographies in American Foreign Policy
    Of all of the Founding Fathers of the American republic none, with the possible exception of Thomas Jefferson, has evoked more passions and aroused more controversy than Alexander Hamilton. In this absorbing new biography, eminent historian Lawrence Kaplan examines Hamilton's conception of America's role in the world and the foreign policies that followed from his vision. Kaplan looks at how ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • NATO 1948

    The Birth of the Transatlantic Alliance

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    This compelling history brings to life the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its long-standing position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an "entangling alliance" with ten European nations. Not since 1800, when the United States ended its alliance with France, had the nation made such a commitment. The historic North Atlantic Treaty was signed on ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • NATO and the UN

    A Peculiar Relationship

    par Lawrence S. Kaplan ...
    When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed just four years after the United Nations, it provided its members with a measure of security in the face of the Soviet Union’s veto power in the senior organization’s Security Council, as well as a means of coping with Communist expansion. Ever since then, the two institutions have been competitors in maintaining peace in the postwar world. ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD

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    A Rendezvous with Destiny

    par Frank Freidel ...
    The acclaimed one-volume biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, praised by Doris Kearns Goodwin as "brilliant...a magnificently readable saga." ... En savoir plus

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  • The Most Noble Adventure

    The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

    par Greg Behrman ...
    In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that was at once strategic, altruistic and stunningly effective, and of a time when America stood as a ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Act of Creation

    The Founding of the United Nations

    par Stephen C Schlesinger ...
    In Act of Creation , Stephen C. Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American President, Harry Truman, picked up the pieces of the faltering campaign initiated by Franklin Roosevelt to create a "United Nations." Using secret agents, financial resources, and their unrivaled position of power, they overcame the intrigues of Stalin ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD