Morgenthau

1960 · Best.-Nr. 509817 — Alfred A. Knopf 1960. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/Good. SIGNED by the author on the FFEP 'With Love Hans.' xi 3 3-359 viii 2. 12mo sewn binding in burgundy cloth gilt stamped spine lettering and blindstamped HJM monogram to front cover pale blue topstain deckled fore edge. FINE copy exceedingly clean and sharp; DJ clipped by the publisher but dispatched to the author prior to their repriced '$5.00' stamp; tips a bit worn light dampstain and crinkling to rear. 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. In 'Purpose of American Politics he sets out to name the lack thereof--a general malaise in post-war politics wherein the goals of international intervention were disappearing in seemingly inverse proportion to the increase in the exertion of American power. The book provides an intellectual framework for his early and lonely dissnet on American involvement in Vietnam which would lead to his ostracization from the Kennedy White House in 1963. PROVENANCE: From Hans Morgenthau's daughter Susanna Morgenthau. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover