To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations

Author Angelo Codevilla asks, What is to be Americas peace? How is it to be won and preserved in our time? He notes that our governments increasingly unlimited powers flow in part from our statesmens inability to stay out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and academics have eased to think about such things. The purpose of this book is to rekindle such thoughts.

The author re-establishes early American statecrafts understanding of peacewhat it takes to make it and what it takes to keep it. He reminds Americans why our founding generation placed the pursuit of peace ahead of all other objectives; he shows how they tried to keep the peace by drawing sharp lines between Americas business and that of others, as well as between peace and war.

He shows how our 20th-century statesmen confused peace and war as well as Americas affairs with that of mankinds. The result, he shows, has been endless war abroad and spiralling strife among Americans. Codevilla provides intellectual guidelines for recovering the pursuit of peace as the guiding principle by which the American people and statesmen may navigate domestic as well as international affairs. See more