Category: Featured Book Reviews
Liberal Missionary: The ‘Whole’ Dean Rusk
Dean Rusk: Defending the American Mission Abroad By Thomas W. Zeiler (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xvii, 235. $17.95 paper.) Liberal Missionary: The ‘Whole’ Dean Rusk By Jack Perry* IN HIS USEFUL bibliographical essay at the end of this … Read more
The Man in the Street and Uncle Sam and the World, Redux
Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy By Douglas C. Foyle (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 377. $24 paper.) The Man in the Street and Uncle Sam and the World, Redux By David W. … Read more
Poor Forgotten Gorby: The First Bolshevik’s Last Apologist
On My Country and the World By Mikhail S. Gorbachev George Shriver, trans. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. Pp. 300) Poor Forgotten Gorby: The First Bolshevik’s Last Apologist by Katherine A. S. Sibley POOR MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. While his San … Read more
McCarthy and His Enemies, Revisited
Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator By Arthur Herman (New York: Free Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 404. $26 cloth.) McCarthy and His Enemies, Revisited by Larry I. Bland* A POLITICAL TRACT DISGUISED AS A … Read more
The American Metternich Remembers Realpolitik
By Victor Fic Years of Renewal By Henry A. Kissinger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Pp. 1,119. $35 cloth.) Henry Kissinger might just refute Andy Warhol’s nostrum that every American will be famous for fifteen minutes. … Read more
Called to Serve The Life of An American Envoy By Kenneth Vickery
Called to Serve The Life of An American Envoy By Kenneth Vickery Safirka: An American Envoy By Peter Bridges (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227 $24 cloth.) A career Foreign Service officer, … Read more
Uncle Sam Supreme Guardian of the Saudi Crown
Review by Hermann Fr. Eilts Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership By Parker T. Hart (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 283. $35 cloth.) In 1991-92, President George Bush deployed a … Read more
The Great Game A Duel of Intriguing Imperialists
By Michael Cotter Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire In Central Asia By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. Pp. xxv, 573. $35 cloth Journalists Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac … Read more
The Unlikely Lady Planter
By Richard Matheron Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda By Rosamond Halsey Carr with Ann Howard Halsey (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999, Pp. 248. $23.95) I fear this cannot be an unbiased book review. I look back … Read more
Dullesian Ad Hoc Raison d’état Rehabilitated
By Nick Sarantakes John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy By Richard H. Immerman (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 221.) In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Richard Immerman was part of a … Read more
State’s Adjunct “Accidental Diplomats” Foreign Service Spouses
State’s Adjunct “Accidental Diplomats” Foreign Service Spouses By Linda Killen The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse By Katherine L. Hughes (Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Aletheia, 1999, Pp. x, 180. $17.95 paper) Were it not for its title, American Diplomacy … Read more
The Electronic Herd vs. The Tortoise
Review by Adam Yarmolinsky The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization By Thomas L. Friedman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Pp. xix, 394. $27.50 cloth.) Returning to Tokyo on a bullet train from a visit … Read more
The Diplomatic Sage of Monticello
Review by John M. Belohlavek Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire By Lawrence S. Kaplan (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. Pp. xvii, 198 . $50 cloth; $17.95 paper.) When Scholarly Resources sought to identify an author to … Read more
Where Are the Cubans in This War?
By Nancy Mitchell The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography By Louis A. Perez, Jr. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xvi, 168 . $16.95 paper.) Rarely … Read more
The Washington-Tel Aviv Axis
Decade of Transition: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance By Abraham Ben-Zvi (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xxii, 219. $17.50 paper) The Washington-Tel Aviv Axisby Paul Sullivan THE PURPOSE OF THIS WELL-WRITTEN AND highly readable … Read more