Bookshelf: Liberty's Surest Guardian by Jeremi Suri
Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest, selects and reviews books on the United States for each issue of Foreign Affairs.
Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest, selects and reviews books on the United States for each issue of Foreign Affairs.
From November/December 2011

Except in its language, which is uniformly accessible and mercifully free of the jargon that plagues contemporary scholarship, this encyclopedia reflects the atmosphere and the concerns of the contemporary academic community as effectively as Diderot’s encyclopedia reflected the French Enlightenment.





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