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Article: James G. Blaine and Latin America.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2004
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James G. Blaine and Latin America. By David Healy. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. 278. $39.95.)
The foreign policy of the United States changed greatly in the nineteenth century, and author David Healy examines one of the central transitory figures of United States foreign relations, James G. Blaine. Blaine, as the book argues, created a new U.S. policy, "which would never return to the limited and reactive pace of the past" (253). Although foreign policy, like any governmental policy, is not made in a vacuum, the author posits that decisions are made by governments and by individuals within the governments. These individuals and ...