The Man in the Street The Impact of American Public Opinion on Foreign Policy
WHY Do WE BEHAVE like Americans in regard to the outside world? This is the basic question that the present volume attempts to answer, and in so doing it is a pioneering enterprise. Several general books have been written on what we currently think about domestic and (somewhat incidentally) foreign affairs, but so far as the author is aware no effort has been made on a wide scale to correlate the "what" with the "why," the present with the past. The treatment is broadly interpretative and, like many other path-breaking endeavors, is suggestive rather than exhaustive. The author hopes that some of the areas here opened will be further cultivated by later settlers. The topical rather than the narrative approach seemed desirable, even at the cost of some slight but inevitable duplication.