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Article: A Breakfast for Bonaparte: US National Security Interests from the Heights of Abraham to the Nuclear Age.
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- The National Interest
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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AT FIRST SIGHT, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations are a delight to behold. Their covers are nicely designed in red-white-and-blue, as befits a history of the American republic, and none of the slender tomes demands more than an inch of shelf space. Caveat emptor, though. On cracking them open, the reader discovers the fine print, literally. The typeface ranges somewhere between small and tiny, which is good for the paper-producing trees of this world, but not for the eyes. The set obeys standards of correctness in other ways, too--for example, when one author apologizes to "neighbors north and south" for using the adjective "American" ...