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Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual

Contributor(s): Bessner, Daniel (Author)

ISBN: 9780801453038

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Pub Date: April 15, 2018

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2017041352

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.88" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.36 lbs) 312 pages

Series: United States in the World

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Description: Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth century, a must-read.In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the...

Brief description: Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

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A revealing look at a thinker burned by populist upheaval who worried that 'man's nature makes the realization of the good order impossible.'

-- "Shepherd Express"

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