Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 by Ambrose Stephen E.
This sixth edition offers an informative view of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 through the first two years of the Bush Presidency. Professor Stephen Ambrose's analysis begins with World War II and continues through the Eisenhower administration, Vietnam, the Iran hostage crisis, and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. The 1987 treaty, the end of the Iran-Iraq war, and the US invasion of Panama are among the new topics discussed in this edition, which closes with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.