Stephen Wertheim Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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America in the world, past and present. Senior Fellow @CarnegieEndow. Lecturer @YaleLawSch and @CatholicUniv. Historian and author of @TomoTheWorld.

Fascism: A Warning
Madeleine Albright
"A decade or two from now, we will be known as the neo-isolationists who allowed totalitarianism and fascism to rise again or as the generation that solidified the global triumph of democratic principles." — Madeleine Albright, February 1997 https://t.co/NaWmIjRs4P
Hardcover, 2018
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Iraq: the Crocker-Petraeus report
United States Senate
The 1998 Iraq Liberation Act: "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime." Passed the Senate by unanimous consent.
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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
Stephen Wertheim
@TomoTheWorld "Any writer wanting to make a novel contribution either has to have evidence for a new interpretation, or at least be making an older argument in some improved and eye-catching way. Stephen Wertheim's 'Tomorrow, the World' does both." https://t.co/xSuHKQAi1k
Hardcover, 2020
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Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming
Lyle Jeremy Rubin
I had the pleasure to interview @rubin_lyle about his new book, Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body, at @PoliticsProse a few weeks ago, and now the event is up here: https://t.co/hVOKW1eqMW
Hardcover, 2022
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
Robert A. Divine
I am sad to learn of the passing of Robert A. Divine, a brilliant and prolific historian. Among his works are Second Chance: The Triumph of Internationalism in America During World War II and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. https://t.co/HxpUVC6q1B
Hardcover, 2000
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
M. E. Sarotte
“Since there was (in Mitterrand's view) a risk of US withdrawal, the French president felt that ‘Europe had to organize itself to handle its own defense capabilities.’” (from @e_sarotte’s Not One Inch) https://t.co/eruK36L51O
Paperback, 2022
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Kennan: A Life Between Worlds
Frank Costigliola
Kudos to Frank Costigliola and @ForeignAffairs for publishing George Kennan's letter in 1997 warning that enlarging NATO was putting Eastern European countries like Ukraine in an impossible position: https://t.co/t3gsBlGocE https://t.co/F7v5IV97yk
Hardcover, 2023
$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role
John A. Thompson
Why? The U.S. economy, especially coming out of the Great Depression, depended very little on foreign trade, as the postwar planners recognized, and as the historian John A. Thompson argues in his book A Sense of Power. https://t.co/d2bAECXVpL https://t.co/XZ2RrM2DCS
Hardcover, 2015
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America: Past & Present
Robert A. Divine
I am sad to learn of the passing of Robert A. Divine, a brilliant and prolific historian. Among his works are Second Chance: The Triumph of Internationalism in America During World War II and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. https://t.co/HxpUVC6q1B
Loose-Leaf Book, 2009
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