Screen LibraryTo make and keep peace among ourselves and with all nations /
Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics...
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Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University,
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| Publisher Address: | Stanford, California : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hoover Institutional Press Publication ;
no. 645 |
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| Summary: |
Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be America's peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our government's increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmen's inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have ceased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts. The author reestablishes early American statecraft's understanding of peace-what it takes to make it and what it takes to keep it. He reminds Americans why our founding generation placed the pursuit of peace ahead of a |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 223 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780817917159 0817917152 9780817917142 0817917144 |
| Index Number: | JZ1480 |
| CLC: | D871. 22 |
| Call Number: | D871. 22/C669 |
| Contents: |
Foreword / The nature of peace -- Peace, civilization, and war -- Defensor pacis -- Patriot kings -- A right to peace -- America, not Rome -- Washington's peace -- Impotence, honor, and war -- American geopolitics -- What greatness? -- Lincoln's peace -- Peacefully pregnant -- Empire? -- Nation, or world? -- Pacifism vs. peace -- War for everything, and nothing -- Cold war -- No-win war, no peace -- Peacekeeping vs. peace -- The war on peace -- No peace at home -- What can be America's peace? |