Self-Deceptions of Empire
David Bromwich: Reinhold Niebuhr, 23 October 2008
The Irony of American History
by Reinhold Niebuhr.
Chicago, 174 pp., £8.50, June 2008,978 0 226 58398 3 Show More
by Reinhold Niebuhr.
Chicago, 174 pp., £8.50, June 2008,
“... in looking to achieve its ends ‘by moral attraction and imitation’. In the years of the Marshall Plan, this was true to a degree that subsequent policies have made easy to forget. Niebuhr alludes just once to a darker possibility: ‘Only occasionally does an hysterical statesman suggest that we must increase our power and use it in order to gain ... ”