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To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy

Felix Gilbert

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To the Farewell Address: Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy

Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds light on its beginnings.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1961
ISBN-13
9780691005744
Genre
History
Topics
Early American foreign policyWashington's Farewell AddressIdealism vs Realism in diplomacy

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