The bi-cultural roots of American foreign policy -- Rum versus whiskey : the faithless first Anglo-American republic, the break with France, and the persecution of the alien Irish -- Cavaliers and Irish : an alliance renewed in America -- The rapacious first Celtic-American republic : the age of Jackson -- From the Mexican War to the brink of Civil War -- The crusading second Anglo-American republic : the puritan counterattack and the yankees' global ambitions -- Confronting the English cousins -- The crusading second Celtic-American republic : McKinley's anti-Catholic crusade -- Bullies in the pulpit : foreign warfare under the Celts from Theodore Roosevelt to Wilson -- "Normalcy" : the grand plan of the third yankee republic and the global pursuit of raw materials -- The age of terror: the third Celtic-American republic : Truman's presidency and the birth of the cold war -- German-American interlude : Eisenhower's legacy of fear and ashes -- From brink to bog to helicopter -- War drums : Carter and Reagan -- The fourth Anglo-American republic : the first oil and petrodollar war -- Virginia Cassidy's son : an Irish-American interlude -- The prodigal son : Bush junior and the second oil and petrodollar war.
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