为了自由的帝国：从本杰明-富兰克林到保罗-沃尔福威茨的美国帝国主义历史

为了自由的帝国：从本杰明-富兰克林到保罗-沃尔福威茨的美国帝国主义历史

伊默曼, 理查德-H

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美国是一个建立在自由和平等原则基础上的国家，怎么会产生阿布格莱布、酷刑备忘录、普拉姆门和无证监听？美国是否打算成为一个帝国？如果是这样，它是如何将其帝国主义--以及在某些情况下，其罪行--与《独立宣言》中强烈表达的自由理念相协调的？自由的帝国》讲述了那些利用自由的修辞来推进其帝国野心的人的故事，并揭示了对帝国的追求从一开始就引导着这个国家的建筑师们--而且今天仍然如此。

每个人都扮演着帝国建设者的关键角色，除了亚当斯之外，他们都没有担任过总统职务。从共和国的建立到全球反恐战争，伊梅尔曼向读者展示了每个人的影响力是如何产生于对其时代关切的敏锐感知；美国帝国的发展轨迹是如何无情的，甚至是笔直的；以及这些精明而强大的个人是如何塑造他们关于自由的言论以满足其需求的。

但是，正如伊默曼在这本及时的、具有煽动性的书中所展示的那样，自由和帝国是在碰撞中前进的。而在全球反恐战争和对伊拉克的占领中，它们发生了激烈的碰撞。

 Empire for liberty : a history of American imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz

Immerman, Richard H

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How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism--and in some cases, its crimes--with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Declaration of Independence? Empire for Liberty tells the story of men who used the rhetoric of liberty to further their imperial ambitions, and reveals that the quest for empire has guided the nation's architects from the very beginning--and continues to do so today.

Historian Richard Immerman paints nuanced portraits of six exceptional public figures who manifestly influenced the course of American empire: Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Seward, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Foster Dulles, and Paul Wolfowitz. Each played a pivotal role as empire builder and, with the exception of Adams, did so without occupying the presidency. Taking readers from the founding of the republic to the Global War on Terror, Immerman shows how each individual's influence arose from a keen sensitivity to the concerns of his times; how the trajectory of American empire was relentless if not straight; and how these shrewd and powerful individuals shaped their rhetoric about liberty to suit their needs.

But as Immerman demonstrates in this timely and provocative book, liberty and empire were on a collision course. And in the Global War on Terror and the occupation of Iraq, they violently collided.