Volume 17, Number 9 · December 2, 1971
Wilson
By William A. Williams
Woodrow Wilson's China Policy, 1913-1917
by Tien-yi Li
Octagon, 268 pp., $8.50
The Higher Realism of Woodrow Wilson and Other Essays
by Arthur S. Link
Vanderbilt University Press, 425 pp., $12.95
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Volumes V-XI
edited by Arthur S. Link Associates
Princeton University Press, 605, (XI) pp., $16.00 each
Joe Tumulty and the Wilson Era
by J.M. Blum
Archon Books, 337 pp., $10.00
Revolution and Intervention: The Diplomacy of Taft and Wilson with Mexico, 1910-1917
by P.E. Haley
MIT, 294 pp., $10.00
The growing awareness that the interventions in Cuba, Santo Domingo, and Vietnam were not accidents, mistakes, blunders, or aberrations has not produced much serious discussion of the process whereby such action became the American Way of dealing with the restless natives of the empire. It is not enough to say that the United States has been sending the marines ever since Thomas Jefferson dispatched them to North Africa in 1801 to clear the way for American commerce. Or to reiterate that the price of freedom is eternal intervention. The issue involves two complex and interrelated developments. One is the gradual confluence of various economic, ideological, and political arguments for expansion into an integrated and dynamic theory of empire. The other is the gathering of psychological momentum behind the propensity to use force in dealing with challenges that appear to threaten the integrity of the empire.
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