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There may be unwitting segments of American opinion that believe the United States could backtrack and go it alone, but this is not a view that a celebrated specialist is expected, during an era of global politics and American leadership, wishfully to express. Mr George Kennan did so, all the same, in hearings before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1966 and 1967.
This essay was first published as an article, ‘History and The American Role’, in Orbis (Spring 1967). Much of the first half has been deleted and there have been minor corrections.
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Gelber, L. (1975). The Politics of Nostalgia. In: Crisis in the West. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02464-3_9
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