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Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World
Maybe someday
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35/100Critics
7/100Scholars
95/100Author:
Charles A. Kupchan
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Date:
October 1, 2020
Kupchan traces isolationism's staying power to the ideology of American exceptionalism.
What The Reviewers Say
... a scholarly book, albeit written by a scholar keen to influence the formulation of basic policy.
... erudite and evenhanded.
Histories of ideas are often boring, but Kupchan writes well and only occasionally falls into the academic mode, mostly when he delivers an opinion and then follows it with a quote from another scholar who backs him up.
