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200 14$aThe turkey and the eagle $ethe struggle for America's global role /$fCaleb Stewart Rossiter
210   $aNew York $cAlgora Pub.$dc2010
215   $a1 online resource (675 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-87586-798-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $apt. 1. Lessons from the past -- pt. 2. Noble distractions -- pt. 3. Reforms and revolutions.
330   $aIn 1784 Benjamin Franklin advocated choosing the industrious, home-loving wild turkey rather than the thieving, wide-ranging bald eagle as the symbol of the United States. Franklin lost that debate, and since then advocates of cooperation as America's global role have been similarly losing their struggle with advocates of U.S. domination. The author recounts that struggle, with particular emphasis on the past 30 years, which he spent working in and around Congress with groups opposed to U.S. support for repressive yet ""friendly"" regimes. He then proposes electoral reforms and a revolution in
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