Praise for the previous edition:
This is an ambitious book which takes a large subject and tackles it boldly...A stimulating book which spurs its readers to consider wide and difficult issues and deserves to be widely read.
   --M. S. Anderson, International History Review

A wide-ranging, intellectually provocative, well-written discussion of the impact which the structure of the domestic politics of major European countries has had on their international conduct over the last few centuries...Kaiser's book is likely to awaken much interest beyond the narrow circle of historical scholars.
   --Virginia Quarterly

David Kaiser is a noted historian and a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the Naval War College.

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• American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War
• The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy