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  1. Aug 26, 2012 · Historian Richard Immerman paints nuanced portraits of six exceptional public figures who manifestly influenced the course of American empire: Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Seward, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Foster Dulles, and Paul Wolfowitz.

    • August 26, 2012
  2. Sep 17, 2012 · The introduction sketches out Immermans aim, which is twofold: firstly, to show that “America is and always has been an empire” (p. 4), and secondly, to trace the different meanings that the notion of empire assumed over time and in what ways it changed.

  3. May 7, 2010 · Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the trajectory of American empire was relentless if not straight; and, how these shrewd and powerful individuals shaped their rhetoric about liberty to suit t...

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  4. Feb 12, 1998 · Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower’s “New Look” program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America’s Cold War strategy. Though the Cold War itself and the idea of containment originated under Truman, it was left to Eisenhower to develop the first coherent ...

  5. Jun 1, 2011 · Immerman's approach is to identify six major figures whose lives span the history of the United States, some of whom we may not necessarily associate as leading architects of American empire, and to survey the history of American foreign relations through them.

  6. Apr 25, 2010 · Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the trajectory of American empire was relentless if not straight; and how these shrewd and powerful individuals shaped their rhetoric about liberty to suit th...

  7. Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the trajectory of American empire was relentless if not straight; and, how these shrewd and powerful individuals shaped their rhetoric about liberty to suit ...

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