American Diplomacy 19001950 Author:George F. Kennan In this book a distinguished former counselor of the State Department makes a vivid, plain-spoken appraisal of this country's foreign relations over the last fifty years. He considers the premises and results of our policy in the Far East, beginning with the Open Door notes of John Hay. He describes the orientation of the diplomacy which carried... more » us through the Spanish-American War and two world wars during the course of fifty years. Mr. Kennan concludes that certain malformations of method and concept have chronically distorted the conduct of American foreign relations. Foreign Policy, American Government, United States History, Politics.« less