Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism

Name: Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American InternationalismAuthor(s): Talbot C. Imlay\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009298971, 978-1009298971\nSynopsis\nIn this illuminating and comprehensive account, Talbot C. Imlay chronicles the life of Clarence Streit and his Atlantic federal union movement in the Unites States during and following the Second World War. The first book to detail Streit's life, work and significance, it reveals the importance of public political cultures in shaping US foreign relations. In 1939, Streit published Union Now which proposed a federation of the North Atlantic democracies modelled on the US Constitution. The buzz created led Streit to leave his position at The New York Times and devote himself to promoting the union. Over the next quarter of a century, Streit worked to promote a new public political culture, employing a variety of strategies to gain visibil.