Behind The Throne: Servants Of Power To Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968 by Thomas J. Mccormick - 1993-09-15

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0299137406 .

University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Wisconsin Press. Used - Very Good. 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust Jacket is Very Good.

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New. During the American rise to world power in the last hundred years, a new presidency has also arisen, a presidency that uses military, economic, political, and personal power that the constitutional founders of the 1780s would have thought highly improbable and dangerous. Behind the Throne argues that United States presidents have received foreign policy advice from a new breed of government servants whose first loyalties were to the chief executive, not the bureaucracy or the public. These "servants of power" defined world views for the president, not only advising but often taking action to implement those world views. The essays in this volume focus on nine servants of power. Brooks Adams, brother of Henry Adams and advisor to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, greatly influenced early American expansionist thinking by supporting Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis. Charles Conant, in the same era, profoundly affected America's economic relationship with Asia… Read More

Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1993. Hardcover. New. 271 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Hardback. New. Standing as a tribute to Fred Harrington of Wisconsin-Madison University, this book argues that in the last 100 years, United States presidents have received foreign policy advice from government servants who define world views for them, not only advising but often taking action to implement them.

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University of Wisconsin Press, 1993-09-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!