Rogue Diplomats: The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy

by Seth Jacobs

Book Overview

Many of America's most significant political, economic, territorial, and geostrategic accomplishments from 1776 to the present day came about because a U.S. diplomat disobeyed orders. The magnificent terms granted to the infant republic by Britain at the close of the American Revolution, the bloodless acquisition of France's massive Louisiana territory in 1803, the procurement of an even vaster expanse of land from Mexico forty years later, the preservation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107079470
• ISBN13: 9781107079472
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 9.1"