Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy

by Robert D. Dean

Book Overview

This provocative book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers-men who prided themselves on "hardheaded pragmatism" and shunned "fuzzy idealism"-could have committed the nation to such a ruinous, costly, and protracted war? The answer, he argues, lies not simply in the imperatives of anticommunist ideology or in any reasonable calculation of national interest. At least as decisive in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558494146
• ISBN13: 9781558494145
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"