Daniel Malloy Smith

Standard textbook which covers the major issues in American history as relates to other countries: treaties, wars, "doctrines"..(Sarah Pallin, what is....doctrine"...It ends with the end of the cold war. Valuable adjunct, reference book to reading other US history.

Includes a useful appendix with names of the secretaries of state. There was a lot of turnover in the numbers of secretaries of state in the various presidencies.

(I have inserted the recent Esquire article on Hillary in my own copy of this book)

A quote I really like from this book..

"No one person or administration can be blamed for the Vietnam entrapment. If blame must be fixed, it might be better placed upon the American people themselves and upon their historic beliefs" p. 453… (mehr)