The four schoolmasters.(Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World)

From: The National Interest | Date: December 22, 2001| Author: Brands, H.W.W. | Copyright information

Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001,), 345 pp., $30.

THE BRITISH statesman Lord Bryce once remarked that describing American foreign policy was like describing the snakes of Ireland. "There are no snakes in Ireland", he added.

It's an old anecdote but an apt one for Walter Russell Mead, who rebuts Bryce from the outset of his new book, Special Providence. Mead discovers...

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