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Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May portrays Kennan’s two documents as a decisive shift in post-war thought. “[In 1946] a lot of people in Washington were concerned that Truman would have a primarily domestic focus, maybe even isolationist...[but] Kennan’s analysis was very persuasive to Truman [with its] argument of the Soviet threat and its understanding that the U.S. can’t retreat from the world...
...true of a man whose ideological forebears (Ronald Reagan and George Bush I) installed a number of dictators and corrupt regimes in the name of ensuring democracy over communism. Even some of those on the right are hesitant to embrace Bush’s message, wondering aloud where the isolationist Texas governor who campaigned in 2000 is now. The cost of the Iraq war and the expansion of government in response to the war on terror have long troubled some principled conservatives, and the project of establishing democracies across the globe is something that would make them cringe...
That single seed, rooted in Roth's singular imagination, grew into an entire alternative world. The Plot Against America is set in a shadow country that never was, an America in which Lindbergh, an isolationist in real life, defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become the 33rd President of the United States of America. Armed with that premise, Roth takes readers on a harrowing safari across interdimensional borders into a bizarro version of his hometown, mid-century Newark, N.J., where we encounter Roth's own family and Roth himself as a child, living under the Lindbergh Administration. "My little rubric that...
...many people remember the shocking presidential election of 1940, when aviation pioneer and confirmed isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically...
Jefferson also had isolationist instincts. "Jefferson saw France and England as capricious monarchies," says Lehigh University political scientist Richard Matthews, author of The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson. "He believed in waging war for the right reasons--for example, a threat to U.S. sovereignty--not for capricious ones." Factoring into Jefferson's belief that America should restrain itself from engaging in international conflict was his optimistic image of the country's utter physical vastness and geographic impregnability. Here is how he characterized the nation in his first Inaugural Address: "Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating...