Rogue diplomats : the proud tradition of disobedience in American foreign policy /

This series showcases cutting-edge scholarship in US foreign relations that employs dynamic new methodological approaches and archives from the colonial era to the present. The series will be guided by the ethos of transnationalism, focusing on the history of American foreign relations in a global c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jacobs, Seth, 1964- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:	Cambridge studies in US foreign relations.
Subjects:	United States. > Foreign Service > Biography. United States > Foreign relations > Case studies. Diplomatic and consular service > United States.

Table of Contents:

"It Is Glory to Have Broken Such Infamous Orders": Adams, Jay, and Franklin Midwife the Republic
"Service without Authority": and Monroe Buy Louisiana
"Instructions or No Instructions": Trist Makes Peace with Mexico
"I Have Now Read the Dispatch, But I Do Not Agree with It": Page Preserves America's "Special Relationship"
"No 'Rubber Stamp' Ambassador": Kennedy Appeases the Dictators ictators
"We Can't Fire Him": Lodge Engineers a Coup.