Volume 30, Number 18 · November 24, 1983
Desperate Times
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45
by Wayne S. Cole
University of Nebraska Press, 698 pp., $26.50
In this age of promiscuous interventionism, the word 'isolationism' has lost much of the odium it used to have forty years ago. Global crusades have latterly proven a source of infinite mischief, and to many Americans it no longer seems such a bad idea to limit the world aspirations of the United States. Critics of globalism like Walter Lippmann and Senator Fulbright have not even flinched from the charge of 'neo-isolationism.' If it is too much to talk of an isolationist revival, still the swing in intellectual circles—and in public opinion too, to judge by the polls—has been for some time in the neo-isolationist direction.
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