A Sense of Power : The Roots of America's Global Role.

A SENSE OF POWER -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem -- Power as an Explanation -- Security as an Explanation -- Economic Interests as an Explanation -- Missionary Ideology as an Explanation -- Seeking an Answer -- 1. A New Sense of Power -- The Expansion of U.S. Foreign Policy -- The Limits of Expansion -- Explaining the Limitations -- The Sense of Power -- 2. Advance and Retreat, 1914-1920 -- The European War and American Opinion -- Wilson's Initial Policy -- The Impact of the U-Boat -- Increasing Involvement and Commitments -- Going to War -- Fighting the War and Preparing for Peace -- The Limits of Power: The Paris Peace Conference -- The Failure to Join the League of Nations -- 3. A Restrained Superpower, 1920-1938 -- The Character of U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1920s -- The Apogee of Isolationism -- 4. Lessening Restraint, 1938-1941 -- The Erosion of Neutrality -- The Impact of the Fall of France -- Explaining the Move toward Involvement -- 5. Full-Scale Involvement, 1941-1945 -- Wielding Global Power -- The Discrediting of "Isolationism" -- What Kind of Internationalism? -- 6. Assuming "the Responsibilities of Power," 1945-1952 -- The Commitment to Western Europe -- Doing More with More -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

In A Sense of Power, John A. Thompson takes a long view of America's dramatic rise as a world power, from the late nineteenth century into the post-World War II era.

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