James Chace

James Chace is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Government and Public Law at Bard College. He is the author of Acheson and, most recently, 1912: The Election That Changed the Country. He is now working on a biography of Lafayette. (October 2004)

From the Review

October 7, 2004: Empire, Anyone?

Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis

War and the American Presidency by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

March 11, 2004: The Winning Hand

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham

July 17, 2003: TR and the Road Not Taken

Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life by Kathleen Dalton

April 10, 2003: Is Puerto Rico a Colony? (letter)

November 21, 2002: Tomorrow the World

First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power by Warren Zimmermann

March 28, 2002: War Without Risk?

War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam

December 21, 2000: The Age of Schlesinger

A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

December 17, 1998: New World Disorder

A World Transformed by George Bush, by Brent Scowcroft

February 11, 1993: Outsiders (letter)

October 8, 1992: The Proconsul

The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment by Kai Bird

America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany by Thomas Alan Schwartz

August 17, 1989: Dithering in Nicaragua

Condemned to Repetition by Robert A. Pastor

Somoza Falling by Anthony Lake

War and Peace in Central America: Reality and Illusion by Frank McNeil

Agony in the Garden: A Stranger in Central America by Edward R.F. Sheehan

April 28, 1988: Getting to Sack the General

January 21, 1988: Nicaragua: An Exchange

October 8, 1987: The End of the Affair?

March 1, 1984: Deeper into the Mire

Report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America

Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter LaFeber

Central America: Anatomy of Conflict International Peace), edited by Robert S. Leiken

December 8, 1983: The Endless War

June 24, 1982: Getting Out of the Central American Maze

April 2, 1981: Insolvent America

March 19, 1981: Insolvent America

Books by James Chace

What if? 2 (2001)
Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World (1999)
The Consequences of the Peace: The New Internationalism and American Foreign Policy (1992)
What We Had: A Memoir (1990)
America Invulnerable: The Quest for Absolute Security from 1812 to Star Wars (1988)
Endless War: How We Got Involved in Central America and What Can Be One (1984)
Solvency, the Price of Survival: An Essay on American Foreign Policy (1982)
A World Elsewhere: The New American Foreign Policy (1973)