From Colony to Superpower

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WIN N E R of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
FINALIST for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
"The strength of this book is the authors Herculean power of synthesis____
Herring recaptures a quarter-millennium of American foreign pohcy with fluidity and felicity .We have long been waiting for a single-volume history like this oner—New York Times Book Review
"A book that never loses its narrative drive, that tacks swiftly and effectively betw*n diplomatic and social history, that covers the topics of traditional diplbmatic history well, and that makes it all look easy."—Foreign Affairs
"Could not be more timely, more colorful, or more compelling." —The Chronicle of Higher Education
"A sweeping and lucid history This authoritative work is destined to grace the bookshelves not only of scholars, but also of nonspecialists who want to understand how the US has engaged the world from the American... Tovább

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WIN N E R of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
FINALIST for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
"The strength of this book is the authors Herculean power of synthesis____
Herring recaptures a quarter-millennium of American foreign pohcy with fluidity and felicity .We have long been waiting for a single-volume history like this oner—New York Times Book Review
"A book that never loses its narrative drive, that tacks swiftly and effectively betw*n diplomatic and social history, that covers the topics of traditional diplbmatic history well, and that makes it all look easy."—Foreign Affairs
"Could not be more timely, more colorful, or more compelling." —The Chronicle of Higher Education
"A sweeping and lucid history This authoritative work is destined to grace the bookshelves not only of scholars, but also of nonspecialists who want to understand how the US has engaged the world from the American Revolution to the administration of George W. Bush."—Christian Science Monitor
"Revisionism of the best kind, quiet but insistent, reinforced by archival evidence and deftly drawn parallels."—New York Times
"Engrossing____Herrings lucid prose and thought-provoking arguments give this large
tome a pace that never flags."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"MagisteTial"—Reviews in American History
"Will likely become the gold standard in the field."—Journal of American History "The standard master narrative of the history of U.S. diplomacy."—Dip/omatic History
GEORGEC. HERRING is Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Kentucky. A leading authority on U.S. foreign relations, he is the former editor of Diplomatic History and a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is the author of America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, among other hooks.
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