ek writes about America foreign policy and considers the different modes by which foreign policy is developed, argued, and implemented. he gives particular attention to the Nixon Administration, which ended less than a decade before he wrote this book. He finds that Nixon and Kissinger considered every foreign policy issue in terms of how it would affect Soviet-American relations and the conduct of the Cold War so that policies regarding the Middle East and Latin America were developed from the same initial point.
Davis, Kenneth C. Don't Know Much About History. New York: Avon Books, 1995.
Subtitled, "Everything You Need to Know about American History but Never Learned," Davis's book is an overview of American history. He usually starts each chapter with a list of provocative questions and then succinctly answers them in an attempt to provide a good historical background covering the major events in U.S. history. Sometimes he goes into more detail when he feels
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