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by Walter Russell Mead (Author) "Lord Bryce, a British statesman who served as Britain's ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913, once wrote that the role of foreign..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition (Oct 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0375412301
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375412301
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.7 x 3.6 cm
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This review is from: Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Paperback)
"Special Providence" seeks to provide the reader with a background to US foreign policy by describing the basic, essentially American cultural and political forces that shape(d) the foreign policy decisions of various administrations from the American Revolution to present day. Not a mean ambition, so a number of omissions is inevitable.

The author's obvious right-wing bias will probably annoy some readers, and many will probably find a few of the author's commentary on individual politicians less than palatable. However, these are minor flaws and do not occupy very much space. Such faults can be overseen as the author's rich use of concrete examples otherwise makes his reasoning both convincing and easy to follow.

The book's merits lie on another plan. Especially for foreign (non-American) readers, used to viewing and analyzing US domestic politics through European left/right terms (and as a result, ending up not much wiser), it provides a very insightful and convincing account of the schools of thought in political philosophy that divide the American society. Mead's choice to organize an array of competing ideological currents into four schools of thought (Jacksonian, Hamiltonian, Wilsonian and Jeffersonian) might seem both vague and arbitrary at first glance, but works well for its purposes, as the book illustrates the perseverance of the patterns of thinking - and those of action - over time.

Universities outside the US would do well to add this book to the list of compulsory reading for first-year political science students trying to comprehend US political thinking, both foreign and domestic.

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