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In this pioneering book, "the man who has really put the counter-tradition together in its modern form" (Saturday Review) examines the profound contradictions between America's ideals and its uses of its vast power, from the Open Door Notes of 1898 to the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.

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• Introduction: History and the Transcendence of the Tragic(p. viii)
• Chapter 1 Imperial Anticolonialism(p. 18)
• I The Transformation of the Expansionist Outlook
• II The Crisis of the 1890s and the Turn to Imperialism
• Chapter 2 The Imperialism of Idealism(p. 58)
• Chapter 3 The Rising Tide of Revolution(p. 90)
• Chapter 4 The Legend of Isolationism(p. 108)
• I A Great Debate Over the Tactics of Empire
• II The Internationalization of Business
• Chapter 5 The War for the American Frontier(p. 162)
• Chapter 6 The Nightmare of Depression and the Vision of Omnipotence(p. 202)
• I Roosevelt and Stalin Confront the Dilemmas of Victory
• II The Open Door Policy and the Onset of the Cold War
• III A New Vision of Omnipotence and A Misreading of History Prompt the United States to Overplay Its Hand
• IV The Diplomacy of the Vicious Circle
• Chapter 7 The Impotence of Nuclear Supremacy(p. 276)
• Chapter 8 The Terrifying Momentum Toward Disaster(p. 294)
• Conclusion: The Wisdom of an Open Door for Revolutions(p. 306)
• "The Tragedy of American Diplomacy": Twenty-five Years After(p. 313)

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The leading "revisionist" historian during the years of the cold war, William Appleman Williams played a major role in shaping the perceptions of a generation of young historians. His best-known book, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (1959), established themes he would pursue throughout his career as a writer and a teacher---the contradictions between ideals and "practicality" in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and the centrality of economic factors in the nation's world outlook. Product of a solidly rural Iowa background and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Williams nonetheless became a figure of controversy because of his unconventional, often iconoclastic, observations about the American experience and his subjection of capitalism to a searching criticism that borrowed freely from Karl Marx, even as it rejected doctrinaire Marxism. At a time when most historians subscribed to a generally benevolent view of the nation's past and of its role in world affairs, Williams's freewheeling critiques often irritated the older generation of scholars. Yet they also opened the way for younger historians to break from the "consensus" school of history and enter into previously unexplored pathways to the American past. (Bowker Author Biography)