Title

Promised land, crusader state : the American encounter with the world since 1776

Description

Taking up the torch of George Kennan, Pulitzer Prize winner Walter McDougall proposes nothing less than to cleanse the vocabulary of our post-Cold War debate on America's place in world affairs. Looking back over two centuries, he draws a striking contrast between America as a Promised Land, a vision inspired by the "Old Testament" of our diplomatic wisdom through the nineteenth century, and the contrary vision of America as a Crusader State, which inspired the "New Testament" of our foreign policy beginning at the time of the Spanish-American War and reaching its fulfillment in Vietnam. To this day, these two visions and these two testaments battle for control of the way America sees its role in the world.

Identifier

680931

395830850

Creator

McDougall, Walter A

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1997

Program air date: June 15, 1997

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpaper: Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. City on the Hill, The Philippines. Should we bring the troops home? Clintonites--Wilsonianisms and Melioristism p. 202. John Q. Adams, George Kennan, William McKinley. Lamb has underlined parts of titles on the Books by Walter A. McDougall page. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: annoyed by pundits, American characteristics, good/bad, meaning of America, foreign policy doctrines, George Washington, Federalists/Democratic Republicans, Washington, Adams, Talleyrand, Klemens von Metternich, Otto von Bismark, James Monroe, Mary Baker Eddy," "imperialism, Progressives, Wilson, Containment, Global Meliorists, religious impulses, Notes: "8 traditions," "immediate danger," "religious people," "Federalist papers," "author of freedom God," "U.S. better," "City upon a Hill," "Tom Paine," "Gordon Wood radical," "tax revolt," "special interest groups," "John Locke," "France and Britain," "War of 1812," "John Adams Decline and Fall," "Unilateralism," "neutrality," "Tocqueville," "Monroe doctrine," "1839 John O'Sullivan," "Why so much drinking," "Tocq.," "America a colonial power," "Seward, Midway island, Alaska," "Samoa," "White man's calling," "14 points," "George Kennan," "Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Korea," "1st 1819," "Herbert Hoover," "America most secure in history," "1996 Thatcher," "healthy nationalism."

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Original Booknotes interview

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