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S2 E13: Bonus Episode - The uses of history with Professor Daniel Sargent

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Show Notes

Professor Sargent is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he holds a dual appointment with the history department and the Goldman School of Public Policy. Professor Sargent is the author of the brilliant A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Forum on the Importance of the Scholarship of Ernest May

A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s

Pax Americana: Sketches for an Undiplomatic History

Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition

The Origins of Alliances

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