Promised Land, Crusader State: American Encounter with the World Since 1776 by Walter A. McDougall Details
The Pulitzer Prize winner, Walter MacDougall, does not carry George Kennan's torch, anything less than purging the vocabulary of our post-Cold War debate about America's place in world affairs. Looking…
The Pulitzer Prize winner, Walter MacDougall, does not carry George Kennan's torch, anything less than purging the vocabulary of our post-Cold War debate about America's place in world affairs. Looking back over two centuries, it paints a striking contrast between America as the Promised Land, an inspired vision of the Old Testament of our diplomatic rule during the nineteenth century, and an opposite vision of America as a Crusader state, which inspired the New Testament to our foreign policy.
The time of the Spanish-American war reaches its peak in Vietnam. To this day, these two visions and these two testaments are struggling to control the way America sees its role in the world..
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