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6. CULTIVATING OUR OWN GARDEN
1. Dwight D. Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” April 16, 1953, http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/ike_chance_for_peace.html.
2. John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630), http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/charity.html.
3. “Washington’s Farewell Address” (1797), http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp.
4. “John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy” (1821), http://www.fff.org/comment/AdamsPolicy.asp.
5. William James, “Address on the Philippine Question” (1903).
6. Randolph Bourne, War and the Intellectuals (New York, 1964), p. 45.
7. George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1950–1963 (Boston, 1972), p. 84.
8. George F. Kennan, Realities of American Foreign Policy (Princeton, New Jersey, 1954), p. 115. This book reprints a series of lectures that Kennan gave at Princeton University in 1954.
9. J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power (New York, 1966), pp. 4, 81, 217–218, 247.
10. Quoted in Eric Miller, Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2010), p. 300. The quotation comes from a 1983 essay published in Harper’s.
11. Martin Luther King, “A Time to Break Silence,” April 4, 1967, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm.
12. Martin Luther King, “It’s a Dark Day in Our Nation,” April 30, 1967, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16183.htm.
13. George Washington, “Sentiments on a Peace Establishment,” May 2, 1783, http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/peacedoc.htm.
14. Treasury Direct, http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/NPGateway; Lawrence Kadish, “Taking the National Debt Seriously,” Wall Street Journal, October 12, 2009; Project on Defense Alternatives, “An Undisciplined Defense,” January 18, 2010, http://www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1001PDABR20exsum.pdf; CIA World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html; Council on Foreign Relations, “U.S. Interest vs. Defense Spending,” October 26, 2009, http://blogs.cfr.org/geographics/2009/10/26/interest-expense/.
15. The Pentagon Papers, Gravel ed., vol. 4 (Boston, 1971), pp. 632–633.
16. “Remarks by the President on a New Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” December 1, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-address-nation-way-forward-afghanistan-and-pakistan.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to express my gratitude to all those who enabled me to pursue my project of belated self-education. At the very top of the list of those to whom I am indebted are John Wright, Tom Engelhardt, and Sara Bershtel. Literary agents, editors, and publishers don’t come any better. To each, I say simply this: Thank you for encouragement, counsel, and friendship.
Rita Quintas and Jason Ng shepherded the manuscript through the production process with cool efficiency. Lucky for me and the book Melanie DeNardo continues to contribute the skills of a first-class publicist.
My young research assistants Paul Roche, Sibyl Kirkpatrick-McKee, and Larissa Forster did a superlative job in tracking down stray facts. Larissa, you are in a league of your own.
For timely advice, I am grateful to Casey Brower, Gian Gentile, Bob Griffith, and especially Dick Kohn, one of the wisest and most generous people I’ve ever been privileged to know.
My debt to the Lannan Foundation grows apace. Toward the end of this project, a Lannan Writing Residency Fellowship allowed me to spend a very productive month in Marfa, Texas. Special thanks to Douglas Humble and Ray Freese for doing so much to make the time spent in Marfa pleasant and rewarding. Since my wife, Nancy, was able to come along, that made Marfa even better. When she is near, things are good. It’s that simple.
Fortunate indeed is the academic who lands a post at Boston University, where students and colleagues create a stimulating environment in which to teach and think. I am especially grateful to Dean Gina Sapiro