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Article: Ethics and United States foreign policy.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 12, 1986
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Ethics and United States Foreign Policy
TWENTY-NINE YEARS after its original publication by World Publishing, Ernest W. Lefever's Ethics and United States Foreign Policy (University Press of America, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Md. 20706; $11.25, paper) retains all the freshness of its youth in a time when people were debating the Bricker Amendment, President Eisenhower's handling of the Suez crisis, and Premier Khrushchev's threat, offered to Western diplomats at a reception in Moscow: "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side! We will bury you!' This quality of freshness being inherent in truth even more than in youth, much of the book's appeal lies in ...