How We Fight Crusades, Quagmires, and the

Tierney, the author of "Failing to Win," takes readers on a lively tour through history and and the present day to to show how Americans respond to and think about war.

Dominic Tierney is a professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. He is also a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is a coauthor of Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics and FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America (both published by academic presses). Tierney received a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University.

Introduction	p. 3
For Liberty and Vengeance: The Crusade Tradition	p. 13
Through a Glass, Darkly: The Quagmire Tradition	p. 34
Birth of a Nation	p. 55
Heel of Achilles	p. 91
To End All War	p. 120
When the Saints Go Marching In	p. 153
Black Gold and Black Hawks	p. 190
The Bush Warriors	p. 217
The Founding Tradition	p. 248
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Notes	p. 271
Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 331
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How We Fight Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War

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