Trade for Peace

AMERICA HAS BEEN A NATION OF GREAT RIVALRY ever since the arrival of the European settlers. This book traces the history of the two foreign policy traditions from their incarnation in the colonial settlements to their evolution into a lasting rivalry between Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian ideals. Dr. Patrick Mendis deciphers the cause that unified these men and uncovers the perennial influence of Freemasonry as well as the founding vision of America embedded as "public secrets" in the...
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AMERICA HAS BEEN A NATION OF GREAT RIVALRY ever since the arrival of the European settlers. This book traces the history of the two foreign policy traditions from their incarnation in the colonial settlements to their evolution into a lasting rivalry between Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian ideals. Dr. Patrick Mendis deciphers the cause that unified these men and uncovers the perennial influence of Freemasonry as well as the founding vision of America embedded as "public secrets" in the nation's capital.

A TOUR DE FORCE ~ MIT Professor Emeritus LINCOLN BLOOMFIELD

CAREFULLY RESEARCHED ~ Aspen Institute President WALTER ISAACSON

LIKE DE TOCQUEVILLE ~ Orville Freeman Professor ROBERT KUDRLE

IMPRESSIVE ~ Ambassador MAX KAMPELMAN

"GET TO KNOW THIS PATRIOTIC CITIZEN ~ Senator GEORGE ALLEN

FOREWORD by Professor J. BRIAN ATWOOD, Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and former Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Undersecretary of Management at the U.S. State Department.

DEDICATED to the late NATO Ambassador HARLAN CLEVELAND, the Founding Dean of the Humphrey Institute and former President of the University of Hawaii and President of the World Academy of Art and Science.

To read the Foreword and Dedication, please see: http://patrickmendis.blogspot.com