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Author:

Brands, Hal, 1983- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

273 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0801452465 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801452468 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)853113914

LCCN:

2013027816

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)