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Article: Behind the Throne: Servants of Power to Imperial Presidents, 1898-1968.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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This collection of nine original essays (with the exception of that by William A. Williams) was written by doctoral students of Fred Harvey Harrington in honor of their mentor. The theme that binds together the articles is the role that "action intellectuals" played in service to the developing "imperial presidency" during America's "rise to globalism" (xi). Thomas J. McCormick and Walter LaFeber inform the reader that their "servants to power" predate the institutionalized national security system and therefore many lacked portfolios even if they had direct access to the president. Clearly the authors set out to explore the antecedents to the Kissinger-like national ...
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