Table of Contents
Introduction: America's First Diplomat 1
Part I A New American Era: Continental Territory, Financial Power, Neutral Independence, and a Republican Union
Chapter 1 Alexander Hamilton: Architect of American Power 16
Chapter 2 Thomas Jefferson: The Futurist 27
Chapter 3 John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay: American Realism and the American System 47
Chapter 4 Abraham Lincoln and William Seward: Pragmatic Unionists 69
Part II The United States and the Global Order
Chapter 5 John Hay: The Open Door 97
Chapter 6 Theodore Roosevelt: Balancer of Power 112
Chapter 7 Woodrow Wilson: The Political Scientist Abroad 134
Part III Interwar Internationalists
Chapter 8 Charles Evans Hughes: Arms Control and the Washington Conference 168
Chapter 9 Elihu Root: International Law 199
Chapter 10 Cordell Hull: Reciprocal Trade 219
Part IV A New Order of American Alliances
Chapter 11 Architects of the American Alliance System 240
Chapter 12 Vannevar Bush: Inventor of the Future 291
Chapter 13 John K Kennedy: The Crisis Manager 315
Chapter 14 Lyndon Johnson: Learning from Defeat 338
Chapter 15 Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: American Realpolitik 363
Chapter 16 Ronald Reagan: The Revivalist 391
Part V An End and a Beginning
Chapter 17 George H. W. Bush: Alliance Leader 418
Chapter 18 Five Traditions of American Diplomacy 443
Afterword: From Traditions to Today 462
Acknowledgments 473
Notes 477
Index 529
About the Author 549