Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Roosevelt and Taft: The Emergence of Civilization as Policy Principle 2: Woodrow Wilson and the Historical Necessity of Idealism 3: Herbert Hoover: Culture versus Civilization 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Halfway Wilsonian 5: Wilsonian Problems: George F. Kennan and the Definition of the Cold War 6: Wilsonian Solutions: Toward a New Language of Power 7: Eisenhower's Symbolic Cold War 8: John F. Kennedy and the Impossibility of Realism 9: Lyndon Johnson and the Crisis of World Opinion Conclusion Abbreviations Used Frequently in the Notes Notes Index

About the Author

Frank Ninkovich is professor emeritus of history at St. John's University, New York. He is the author of many books, including Modernity and Power and The Wilsonian Century, both also published by University of Chicago Press.