Can anyone recommend any good books on American foreign policy?

February 5, 2014 | Ennis85

[Ennis85]

About a year ago, I posted a thread asking for recommendations for good republican memoirs.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2981964/posts

Since then I've complied quite a reading list. Going on the recommendations that were given to me(which I'm pretty grateful for), I got a few Richard Nixon books(No more Vietnams, The real war, Leaders) George Bush and Dick Cheney's books and others.

I'm still to get through the last two, but I've finished reading through No more Vietnams and currently getting through the other Nixon books. But No more Vietnams really quite impressed me by how well detailed and informative it was and this is the only book I've read about the the Vietnam war so far.

Having read it motivated me to look for other books about not just Vietnam but other aspects of American foreign policy. So I just wanted to ask people here for their recommendations again.

To specify what topics I'm looking for(but not necessarily limited to), American policy towards Central America in the 1980s, Panama war, the first and second gulf wars or the middle East in general.

[Pollster1]

We know what Obama read for inspiration. I do not recommend it!

[ballplayer]

Jack Singlelaub,”HAZARDOUS DUTY”,amazing,Diana West “American Betrayal”

[wildbill]

You have to start with the article by George Kennan in Foreign Affairs. “X” (July 1947), “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”, Foreign Affairs 25 (4): 566–582, doi:10.2307/20030065, ISSN 0015-7120, JSTOR 20030065

This is the basis for U.S. foreign policy of ‘containment’ for generations during the Cold War including both Democratic and Republican administrations. Kennan wrote a number of books including a series on the relations between Russia and the U.S.