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Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World

by Charles A. Kupchan

★ Foreign Affairs – Best Books of the Year ★ Lionel Gelber Prize

The first book to tell the full story of American isolationism, from the founding era through the Trump presidency. In his Farewell Address of 1796, President George Washington admonished the young nation “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Isolationism thereafter became one of the most influential political trends

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2020
Format: Print edition
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9780199393022

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Political Science: Geopolitics Political Science: Intelligence & Espionage Political Science: International Relations – General

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