Abstract: America should walk softly and carry a big stick, and only engage military threats to our own nation.
Keywords: book review, current_events, history, politics, America First, Monroe Doctrine, military involvement entanglements, mutual defense treaties, Patrick J. Buchanan.

Title: A Republic Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
Author: Patrick J. Buchanan
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Date Published: September 1999
ISBN: 089526272x
LOCN: E183.7B83 1999
Dewey: 327.73'009-dc21
Pages: 437
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CONTENTS

Preface

Part One : America Reaches for Global Hegemony

Chapter 1 : How Empires Perish

Chapter 2 : Courting Conflict with Russia

Chapter 3 : America's Future Wars

Chapter 4 : The Myth of American Isolationism

Part Two : 1789 -- 1823 : Independence and Expansion

Chapter 5 : Birth of an American Foreign Policy

Chapter 6 : "Mr. Madison's War"

Chapter 7 : How We Took Florida

Part Three : 1845 -- 1869 : Manifest Destiny

Chapter 8 : "Jimmy Polk's War"

Chapter 9 : "One War at a Time"

Part Four : 1898 -- 1919 : The Turning Point

Chapter 10 : "Splendid Little War"

Chapter 11 : The New Imperialists

Chapter 12 : "He Kept Us Out of War"

Chapter 13 : "Wilson's War"

Part Five : 1921 -- 1941 : Triumph of the Interventionists

Chapter 14 : Disarmament Decade

Chapter 15 : The Zeal of the Convert

Chapter 16 : Back Door to War

Part Six : 1945 -- 1989 : Twilight Struggle

Chapter 17 : America's Longest War

Part Seven : A Foreign Policy for America

Chapter 18 : "Passionate Attachments" and Press Power

Chapter 19 : Claimants to Kennan's Legacy

Chapter 20 : A Republic, Not an Empire

This book is on my shelf awaiting further review.

     

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