Patricia U Bonomi Bücher

Public Opinion in American Foreign Policy examines the role that public attitudes have played over the last generation in the making of US foreign policy. It focuses on four prominent foreign interventions: the Vietnam War, the Nicaraguan contra funding controversy, the Persian Gulf War, and the Bosnia crisis.

First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious...