A Republic, Not an Empire

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-02-01
Publisher(s): Regnery Pub
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Summary

All but predicting the September 11 attacks, Pat Buchanan warns that America is inviting terrorist attacks and conflict by engaging in an interventionist foreign policy that is costly, dangerous, and does not serve our own interests.

Author Biography

Patrick J. Buchanan is a political commentator and nationally syndicated columnist. He has been a founding panelist on three national television shows on CNN and NBC, and served as a senior White House adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. Buchanan is making his third run for the presidency. He lives with his wife, Shelley, in McLean, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Paperback Edition: To Hell with Empire ix
Preface xxiii
Part One America Reaches for Global Hegemony
How Empires Perish
3(4)
Courting Conflict with Russia
7(20)
America's Future Wars
27(20)
The Myth of American Isolationism
47(12)
Part Two 1789-1823: Independence and Expansion
Birth of an American Foreign Policy
59(10)
``Mr. Madison's War''
69(22)
How We Took Florida
91(14)
Part Three 1845-1869: Manifest Destiny
``Jimmy Polk's War''
105(22)
``One War at a Time''
127(18)
Part Four 1998-1919: The Turning Point
``Splendid Little War''
145(26)
The New Imperialists
171(10)
``He Kept Us Out of War''
181(12)
``Wilson's War''
193(38)
Part Five 1921-1941: Triumph of the Interventionists
Disarmament Decade
231(18)
The Zeal of the Convert
249(34)
Back Door to War
283(18)
Part Six 1945-1989: Twilight Struggle
America's Longest War
301(30)
Part Seven A Foreign Policy for America
``Passionate Attachments'' and Press Power
331(24)
Claimants to Kennan's Legacy
355(12)
A Republic, Not an Empire
367(24)
Notes 391(30)
Acknowledgments 421(2)
Index 423

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