The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy
Author: Michael Kimmage Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 For much of the twentieth century, Americans saw their nation as part of a shared Western civilization rooted in European Enlightenment ideals of liberty and self-government and the heritage of classical Greece and Rome. And for much of the century, a vision of Western liberty guided America's foreign affairs, from the crusades of the world wars to its strategic alliances with Europe in the Cold War against the Communist East. But...
The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy