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The Faces of Power: United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Clinton
second edition
September, 1994
Paper, 658 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-09669-0
$42.50
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Cloth, 658 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-09668-3
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Constancy and Change Since World War II
Purpose and Power: An Overview
The Truman Administration
The Changing Essence of Power
The Eisenhower Era
The Shattering of Expectations
The Implementation of Containment
The Kennedy-Johnson Years
A New Look for Less Expensive Power
Statecraft Under Nixon and Ford
Waging Peace: The Eisenhower Face
The Carter Period
Crises and Complications
The Reagan Era: Realism or Romanticism?
Enhancing the Arsenal of Power
Prudence and Power in the Bush Years
The Third World as a Primary Arena of Competition
Enter Bill Clinton
Kennedy's Cuban Crises
Berlin Again
The Vietnam Quagmire
Avoiding Humiliation in Indochina
The Insufficiency of Military Containment
The Middle East and the Reassertion of American Competence Abroad
The Anachronism of Conservative Realpolitik
The Many Faces of Jimmy Carter
Idealism as the Higher Realism
The Camp David Accords: Carter's Finest Hour
Hostages in Iran
Afghanistan and the Reassertion of Geopolitical Imperatives
High Purpose and Grand Strategy
The Tension Between Foreign and Domestic Imperatives
Middle Eastern Complexities: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Terrorism, and Arms for Hostages
Contradictions in Latin America
The Reagan-Gorbachev Symbiosis
Presiding Over the End of the Cold War
George Bush and the Resort to Military Power
The New World Order
From Domestic Politician to Geopolitician