Book Review: United States: Politics in the 20th Century
| Published date | 01 March 1965 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206502000120 |
| Date | 01 March 1965 |
| Author | G. M. Craig |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIEWS
125
To
the
end
Mr.
Hutchison
maintains
the
stiff upper
lip,
befitting
a
Canadian
nationalist,
insisting
that
the
country
will
come
through its
present
crisis
and
find
its
national
soul.
But
in
his
preface,
which
was
probably
written
last,
he
remarks
gloomily
that
Mr.
Pearson
is
the
first
Canadian prime
minister
who
cannot
confidently
predict
the
con-
tinued
existence
of
his
country.
Perhaps
that
pessimism
reflects
a
con-
cept
of
Canadian
nationalism
which
developed
in
the
last
thirty
years
and
which
is
part
of
our
present
difficulties.
At any
rate
it
is
that
concept
which
is
being
questioned
today, and
that
leaves
Mr.
Hutchison
a
little
bewildered
and
uneasy-as
it
does
many
other
Canadians.
University
of
Toronto
RAMSAY
COOK
United
States
POLITICS
IN
THE
20TH
CENTURY.
Volume
I.
The
Decline
of
Democratic
Politics.
xii,
430pp.
$10.00.
Volume
II,
The
Impasse
of American
Foreign
Policy.
viii,
311pp.
$7.50.
Volume
III.
The
Restoration
of
American
Politics,
ix,
390pp.
$8.95.
By
Hans
J.
Morgenthau.
1962
(Chicago:
University
of
Chicago
Press.
Toronto: University
of
Toronto
Press.
$25.00
per set)
In
the
nearly
thirty
years
that
he
has
lived
in
the
United
States,
Hans
J.
Morgenthau
has
become one of
the most
influential
spokesmen
on
international
politics in
that
country, both
in
academic
and
in
govern-
mental
circles.
In
addition to
his
several
lengthy
books
he
has
been
an
indefatigable
and
prolific
writer
of
articles
for
learned
journals
and
for
various
organs
of
opinion.
In
the
present three
volumes
there
are
collected
over
a
hundred
of
these
articles,
some
of
them
dating
back
nearly
a
quarter
of
a
century
but
drawn
for
the
most
part
from
the
1950's.
Thus
brought
together,
these
articles
provide
a
formidable
demonstration
of
one
man's
attempt
to
understand
and
explain
the
ever-changing
course
of
world
politics.
The most
remarkable
feature
of
this
collection,
driven
home
by
the
inevitable
repetition
to
be
found
in
articles
on
the
same
general
subject
written
over
a
long period
of
time,
is
the author's
consistency.
He
began
the
American
phase
of
his
career
as
a
fully-trained
scholar
with
a
clearly
developed
philosophy
of world
politics, to
which
he
has
rigorously
remained
faithful
ever
since.
This
philosophy
has
required
him
to
maintain
a sustained and
severe
critique
of
American
policy
during
the
last
generation.
In
a
few lines
it
is
impossible
adequately
to summarize
this
phil-
osophy
in
all
its sophistication.
As
is
generally
known,
Morgenthau
wants
us
to
be
"realists"
rather
than
"utopians":
to
look
at
the
world
as
it
really
is,
not
as
we would
like
it
to
be,
to
see
that
the
world,
imperfect
as it
is
from
the rational
point
of view,
is
the
result
of
forces
inherent
in
human
nature.
To
improve
the
world
one
must
work
with
those
forces,
not
against
them.
It
is
a
world of
opposing
interests,
in
which
the
best
that
can
be
hoped
for
is
a
temporary
balancing
through
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