From Colony to Superpower - U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776

(NYTBR) - This is an ambitious work and a steal — a thousand pages for $35. Such heft is rare these days, and such ambition is even rarer: a single-volume history of American foreign policy from George Washington to George W. Bush. For a similar try, you have to go back half a generation to Eugene V. Rostow’s “Breakfast for Bonaparte” or to the four-volume (and four-author) “Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations.”
Professionals and interested laymen will always want such a book: an up-to-date, two-inch-thick repository of facts and quotations, with the what, when and wherefore of, say, Manifest Destiny laid out at your fingertips. Or, who first warned against “entangling alliances”? No, it wasn’t Washington but Jefferson. Continued