No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry Into World War II
by Russett, Bruce M
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good. Pencil erasure residue on half-title.
- ISBN 10
- 0061316490
- ISBN 13
- 9780061316494
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Harper Torchbooks edition [stated]. Trade paperback. Good. Pencil erasure residue on half-title.. 111 p. Occasional footnotes. Index. This is a Harper Torchbooks, designation TB 164. From Wikipedia: "Bruce Martin Russett (born 1935) is Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Professor in International and Area Studies, MacMillan Center, Yale University, and edited the Journal of Conflict Resolution from 1972 to 2009....Russett received his B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College in 1956, a Diploma in Economics from King's College, Cambridge in 1957, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale in 1961. His first academic appointment was at MIT in 1961. He has taught at Yale since 1962 and has been Dean Acheson Professor since 1985. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University (1965), Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan (1965 66), Institut d'Etudes Europeennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles (1969 70), Richardson Institute for Peace & Conflict Research, London (1973 74), Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina (1979 80), Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (1974), University of Tel Aviv (1989), Professor of International Capital Markets Law, Tokyo University Law School (1996), and Harvard University (2001). He has been president of the Peace Science Society (International) (1977 79) and the International Studies Association (1983 84). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. He was principal advisor to the U.S. Catholic Conference in writing their 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace, and with Paul Kennedy staffed the Ford Foundation s 1995 report, The United Nations in Its Second Half-Century. His grants and fellowships include multiple awards from the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation the World Society Foundation of Switzerland, Fulbright-Hays, Guggenheim Fellowships, and the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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- Title
- No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry Into World War II
- Author
- Russett, Bruce M
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. Pencil erasure residue on half-title.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Harper Torchbooks edition [stated]
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0061316490
- ISBN 13
- 9780061316494
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Cold War, Charles Beard, Isolationism, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, Military Policy, War Aims, NATO, Tonkin Gulf
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