TY - BOOK AU - Brands,Hal TI - What good is grand strategy?: power and purpose in American statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush SN - 9780801452468 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - 002 E 744 B819w 2014 U1 - 327.73009/04 PY - 2014/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Estados Unidos KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Siglo XX KW - Siglo XXI N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-259) and index; Introduction : the meaning and challenge of grand strategy -- The golden age revisited : the Truman administration and the evolution of containment -- Travails of the heroic statesmen : grand strategy in the Nixon-Kissinger years -- American statecraft in the late Cold War : was there a Reagan grand strategy? -- The dangers of being grand : George W. Bush and the post-9/11 era -- Conclusion : grappling with grand strategy ER -