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A World of Men: The Private Sources of American Foreign Policy
A World of Men: The Private Sources of American Foreign Policy
By Lloyd S. Etheredge
MIT Press, 1978, 178 pp.

No one doubts that the personalities of leaders influence the decisions they make. But the author, using questionnaires answered by middle-ranking officials and secondary accounts of the behavior of high officials, claims a very large and dangerous role for "personality intrusions," especially in decisions involving the use of force. Provocative but unconvincing.

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