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How We Fight : Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War
ISBN: 9780316045155 | 0316045152
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date: 11/4/2010
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Tierney, the author of "Failing to Win," takes readers on a lively tour through history and and the present day to to show how Americans respond to and think about war.
A brilliant and controversial investigation into what drives Americans to war - and a sober look at what causes us to lose our stomach for the fight.
A brilliant and controversial investigation into what drives Americans to war - and a sober look at what causes us to lose our stomach for the fight.
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| For Liberty and Vengeance: The Crusade Tradition | p. 13 |
| Through a Glass, Darkly: The Quagmire Tradition | p. 34 |
| Birth of a Nation | p. 55 |
| Heel of Achilles | p. 91 |
| To End All War | p. 120 |
| When the Saints Go Marching In | p. 153 |
| Black Gold and Black Hawks | p. 190 |
| The Bush Warriors | p. 217 |
| The Founding Trad... MORE | p. 248 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 269 |
| Notes | p. 271 |
| Bibliography | p. 305 |
| Index | p. 331 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Dominic Tierney is a professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. He is also a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is a coauthor of Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics and FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America (both published by academic presses). Tierney received a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University.
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