There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation s past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism, that is, of the basic values and liberties that have given the United States its very identity. He argues that a political economy of expansion and the quest for security led American leaders after 1890 to equate prosperity and safety with global engagement. In so doing, they developed and clung to what Walker calls the security ethos. Expressed in successive...
There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation s past, William O....
There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation s past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism, that is, of the basic values and liberties that have given the United States its very identity. He argues that a political economy of expansion and the quest for security led American leaders after 1890 to equate prosperity and safety with global engagement. In so doing, they developed and clung to what Walker calls the security ethos. Expressed in successive...
There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation s past, William O....
