The American Century and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1893-2014

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My thanks, once again, to Susan Ferber of Oxford University Press for guiding the parent volume, From Colony to Superpower, to completion. Susan also developed the idea for this split edition and got the project under way. Tim Bent took it over last year, offered insightful comments on the new material, and helped get these volumes ready for publication. Alyssa O’Connell managed with admirable efficiency the acquisition of permissions for the images and took care of numerous other tasks that go with the production of a book. I enjoyed working with her, and greatly appreciate her help. Thomas Finnegan skillfully copyedited the new ma- terial, and Amy whitmer patiently and with good humor guided this Luddite through the process of electronic editing. Steve wrinn, former director of the University Press of Kentucky, read the last chapter of The American Century—and Beyond with his usual keen editorial eye and of- fered numerous suggestions on style and substance. Alan Lowe, at the time director of the George w. Bush Library, and his colleague Eric McGrory, acquired for me with remarkable dispatch one of my favorite photographs. As General Editor of the Oxford History of the United States series, David M. Kennedy rescued me several times during the production of From Colony to Superpower and these two volumes. He helped establish the framework for this split edition and pushed me on several very impor- tant features until I got them right. David has no peer as an editor. My wife, Dottie Leathers, has continued to support my research and writing long after she might have asked whether I couldn’t find something else to do. These volumes, like From Colony to Superpower, are dedicated to her with my love.