Synopses & Reviews
A Republic, Not an Empire is presidential candidate Pat Buchanan's erudite and eloquent plea for a new American foreign policy. To avoid a future of endless war, he offers a new policy rooted in America's greatest traditions.
This is the story of how American statesmen, through vision and courage, quadrupled the size of our Republic in a single century to create the most remarkable nation the world had ever seen. This is also the story of how twentieth-century presidents abandoned George Washington's "great rule" to avoid permanent alliances and stay out of foreign wars and led this country into global conflagrations that changed America and the world forever, and not always for the better.
The United States has piled commitment upon commitment to nations and regions around the world the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Persian Gulf, the Middle East, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Buchanan shows how America is reenacting the ancient folly of imperial overstretch that has led to the ruin of every other great power in history and to the catastrophic world wars of this blood-soaked century.
He argues for a new foreign policy rooted in the wisdom of the Founding Fathers and giants of American statesmanship George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson as well as modern warrior heroes like Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur.
Surveying the sweep of our nation's history, Buchanan demonstrates how America's liberty is best protected when the United States pursues its own vital interests, and how our liberty is most endangered when we embark on international crusades that are divorced from those interests.
Review
"Claiming to rescue history from the clutches of revisionists who not only slander the idea of isolationism but also get their history wrong, Buchanan...offers a ringing defense of isolationism, although he doesn't call it that....[R]eaders who can stomach the author's more outrageous fits of polemical bile...will have to admit that Buchanan makes a stirring and entertaining argument even if...it is, for the foreseeable future, a losing argument." Publishers Weekly
Review
"The best feature of Buchanan's argument is that he bases it in a history of U.S. foreign policy from Washington to the present. With his vivid columnist's prose, he also produces a read as riveting as it is provocative." Booklist
Synopsis
Political commentator and presidential candidate Pat Buchanan warns that America is inviting terrorist attacks and unnecessary conflict by engaging in an interventionist foreign policy that is costly.
Synopsis
All but predicting the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Buchanan examines and critiques America's recent foreign policy and argues for new policies that consider America's interests first.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-419) and index.