Morgenthau

1972 · rif. 509821 — Alfred A. Knopf 1972. Fifth Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD/Very Good. Hans Mogrenthau's personal author's copy acquired directly from his daughter Susanna Morgenthau. With a random note written on his 'University of Chicago Center for the Study of American Foreign Policy' stationary. xxv 8 4-617 xx pp. 8vo perfectbound in blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and blindstamped 'HJM' monogram to front cover. Paper tanned as usual with this edition a few pages bent at the fore top corner tail edge with what appears to be some light paint overspray otherwise entirely clean and sound; DJ spine lettering sunned tips a bit worn with some loss to the spine tail same paint overspray to tail and fore edges. Hans Morgenthau was one of the foremost political theorists of the 20th century. He arrived in the US in 1937 as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany going on to a distinguished carreer with appointments and professorships at numberous prestigious institutions including Yale Harvard Columbia California and the University of Chicago. Morgenthau's outsize impact on the study of international relations in the West cannot be underestimated. His 'Political Realism' theory was immensely influential in American Politics notably gaining purchase in his consultancy for Truman Eisenhower and Kennedy as well as in his protege Henry Kissinger. Dubbing him 'the Pope of Realism' Stanley Hoffman writes 'If our discipline has any founding father it is Mortenthau.' William Scheuerman writes 'Morgenthau's intellectual agenda effectively dominated the scholarly study of international relations in the United States well into the 1970's. Not only did Morgenthau write two of postwar Realism's most influential books Politics Among Nations and In Defense of the National Interest but he penned about a dozen others as well as hundreds of scholarly articles on an astonishing range of topics. Unlike most academics Morgenthau also became a much sought-after public intellectual and his oftentimes pithy commentaries on foreign affairs appeared regularly in popular magazines and journals as well as newspapers like the New York Times from the 1950s onwards. 'His massive textbook Politics Among Nations first published in 1948 remains the most systematic attempt to employ 'realist' principles in constructing and empirical theory of international politics.' Giffiths Fifty Key Thinkers. Arguably it is one of the most influential books in 20th Century American Politics for its role in the formation of multiple generations of Poly-Sci students: 'Upon publication in September 1948 the treatise was promptly adopted as a textbook for foreign policy and international relations courses at Columbia Harvard Princeton and Yale. Ninety colleges throughout the United States would follow suit within seven months. By 1955 40000 copies had been sold in the United States alone and by 1968 sales would reach 160000.' Christoph Frei 'Politics Among Nations: Revisiting a Classic' in Ethics and International Affairs PROVENANCE: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover