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)
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Empire, Anyone?
October 7, 2004
Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
by John Lewis Gaddis
War and the American Presidency
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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The Winning Hand
March 11, 2004
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
by Conrad Black
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
by Jon Meacham
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TR and the Road Not Taken
July 17, 2003
Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life
by Kathleen Dalton
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Is Puerto Rico a Colony?
April 10, 2003
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Tomorrow the World
November 21, 2002
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
by Warren Zimmermann
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War Without Risk?
March 28, 2002
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
by David Halberstam
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The Age of Schlesinger
December 21, 2000
A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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New World Disorder
December 17, 1998
A World Transformed
by George Bush, by Brent Scowcroft
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Outsiders
February 11, 1993
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The Proconsul
October 8, 1992
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
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Dithering in Nicaragua
August 17, 1989
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
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Getting to Sack the General
April 28, 1988
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Nicaragua: An Exchange
January 21, 1988
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The End of the Affair?
October 8, 1987
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Deeper into the Mire
March 1, 1984
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
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The Endless War
December 8, 1983
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Getting Out of the Central American Maze
June 24, 1982
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Insolvent America
April 2, 1981
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Insolvent America
March 19, 1981