We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
The United States as World Savior: Costs and Consequences.
- Authors
Gamble, Richard M.
- Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the history of American foreign policy, focusing on the contrast between the messianic ideals of presidents such as Woodrow Wilson and the more limited and pragmatic aims of the Founding Fathers. Wilson is quoted, at a peace conference following World War I, introducing a plan for inculcating Christian virtues in Europeans. The doctrines of manifest destiny and the social gospel, as well as the messianic aspects of abolitionism and the Civil War are discussed in this context.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WILSON, Woodrow, 1856-1924; FOUNDING Fathers of the United States; POLITICAL messianism; MANIFEST destiny (U.S.); UNITED States politics &; government; FOREIGN relations of the United States; PHILOSOPHY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Political Science Reviewer, 2009, Vol 38, p106
- ISSN
0091-3715
- Publication type
Article