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To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy

By Felix Gilbert

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1970
ISBN
0691005745, 9780691005744
ASIN
B0000CL6B7
LCC
E310.7 .G5 1970
Open Library ID
OL24972299M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6636274 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
182\182
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds light on its beginnings.

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