Word: appleman
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Williams, William Appleman, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Revised Edition), New York, Delta Books...
Herbert Hoover knew it all the time. So says Oregon State University's William Appleman Williams, dean of revisionist historians. In the New York Review of Books, Williams portrays Hoover as a prophet who fought against precisely the corporate America that radicals decry-"vast repetitive operations dulling the human mind," the congestion of the population, the economic domination of great wealth. "Hoover outlined our future in 1923," Williams concludes. "We are living in it now." The dour Quaker President was done in, according to Williams, "by his faith in the dream of a cooperative American community. The trouble with...
...involved American foreign affairs. The U.S., revisionists say, has become the imperialistic aggressor of the cold war, while the Soviet Union, even under Stalin, is seen as essentially cautious and realistic. In The Tragedy of American Diplomacy and more recently in The Roots of the Modern American Empire, William Appleman Williams -perhaps the longest-practicing revisionist-contends that the American pursuit of an open-door policy has brought it into conflict with nations around the world. Williams interprets every act of U.S. diplomacy in the light of his neo-Marxist conviction that capitalism must always expand in search...