Empire of Liberty

Robert Tucker is Professor of American Diplomacy at the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He has written widely on American foreign policy, nuclear weapons, and international law and ethics. David Hendrickson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Colorado College, and is the author of two books on American defense policy. Their previous book together, The Fall of the First BritishEmpire: Origins of the War of American Independence, appeared in 1982.

`A splendid book on Jefferson's foreign policy.'The Wall Street Journal