TY  - BOOK
AU  - Niebuhr, Reinhold, 
AU  - Niebuhr, Reinhold,
AU  - Bacevich, Andrew J.
TI  - The irony of American History
SN  - 9780226583983
U1  - 973 NIE 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London  Chicago 
PB  - : University of Chicago Press
KW  - History
KW  - History of North America
KW  -  United States
KW  - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953
KW  - United States -- History -- Philosophy
KW  - United States -- Civilization
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Estados Unidos -- Relaciones exteriores -- 1945-1953
KW  - Estados Unidos -- Hisotoria -- Filosofía
N1  - The ironic element in the American situation --
The innocent nation in an innocent world --
Happiness, prosperity and virtue --
The master of destiny --
The triumph of experience over dogma --
The international class struggle --
The American future --
The significance of irony
N2  - Composed during the postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is as relevant as ever today. Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue. Impassioned and eloquent, his wisdom encourages us to rethink our assumptions about right and wrong, war and peace."--Book cover
ER  -