Walter Nugent taught history at the University of Notre Dame for sixteen years and at Indiana University for twenty-one years before that. As a visiting professor he has also taught, lectured, and lived in England, Israel, Germany, Poland, and Ireland. He has published eleven previous books and nearly two hundred essays and reviews. He is a past president of the Western History Association and a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Highland Park, Illinois, with his wife, the historian Suellen Hoy.
"An enormous contribution to our national self-knowledge . . .
Nugent's work is deeply valuable to all who seek to understand not
only American history but all the ways that history has shaped the
world."
--Stephen Kinzer, "Chicago Tribune
"
"A lucid, vivid, and above all candid history of American expansion
. . . Readers will undoubtedly be continually applying what
[Nugent] says about Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Polk, and
McKinley to what they read in their newspapers."
-Daniel Walker Howe, "New York Sun
"
"A comprehensive history of how the thrust of empire shaped
American history . . . [Nugent] makes it plain that the policies of
the present administration have a pedigree that goes back even to
the Founding Fathers."
--"The Economist
"
"Compelling . . . Controversial . . . Challenges some of America's
most cherished ideas about itself."
-"Publishers Weekly"
"Erudite yet accessible, Nugent's history lightly expresses its
opinions without interrupting the arc of its story."--"Booklist
"
"Walter Nugent is a national treasure. No historian since Frederick
Jackson Turner has done more to explain the enormous impact of
westward expansion upon the American experience. Elegantly written,
impeccably researched, Habits of Empire will soon take its place, I
suspect, among the most important historical commentaries of our
era."
--David Oshinsky, author of "Polio: An American Story
"
"How did the United States come to regard itself as morally
superior to other nations and entitled to employ force rather than
persuasion to get its way? This lucid, wide-ranging book not only
answers that question but offers essential understandings for those
who wish to break the bad habits of empire."
--David J. Weber, author of "Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages
in the Age of Enlightenment.
"
"At last, the essential background, succinctly and clearly told,
which is absolutely necessary to understand if we are to deal with
t
"A comprehensive history of how the thrust of empire shaped
American history . . . [Nugent] makes it plain that the policies of
the present administration have a pedigree that goes back even to
the Founding Fathers."
--"The Economist
"
"Erudite yet accessible, Nugent's history lightly expresses its
opinions without interrupting the arc of its story."--"Booklist
"
"Walter Nugent is a national treasure. No historian since Frederick
Jackson Turner has done more to explain the enormous impact of
westward expansion upon the American experience. Elegantly written,
impeccably researched, Habits of Empire will soon take its place, I
suspect, among the most important historical commentaries of our
era."
--David Oshinsky, author of "Polio: An American Story
"
"How did the United States come to regard itself as morally
superior to other nations and entitled to employ force rather than
persuasion to get its way? This lucid, wide-ranging book not only
answers that question but offers essential understandings for those
who wish to break the bad habits of empire."
--David J. Weber, author of "Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages
in the Age of Enlightenment.
"
"At last, the essential background, succinctly and clearly told,
which is absolutely necessary to understand if we are to deal with
the post-9/11 tragedies of American foreign policy. Walter Nugent
rightly identifies those tragedies as the culminations of a
post-1776 American 'ideology of expansion.'"
--Walter LaFeber, Tisch University Professor Emeritus, Cornell
University, author of" America, Russia, and the Cold War"
"Erudite yet accessible, Nugent's history lightly expresses its
opinions without interrupting the arc of its story."--"Booklist
"
"Walter Nugent is a national treasure. No historian since Frederick
Jackson Turner has done more to explain the enormous impact of
westward expansion upon the American experience. Elegantly written,
impeccably researched, Habits of Empire will soon take its place, I
suspect, among the most important historical commentaries of our
era."
--David Oshinsky, author of "Polio: An American Story
"
"How did the United States come to regard itself as morally
superior to other nations and entitled to employ force rather than
persuasion to get its way? This lucid, wide-ranging book not only
answers that question but offers essential understandings for those
who wish to break the bad habits of empire."
--David J. Weber, author of "Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages
in the Age of Enlightenment.
"
"At last, the essential background, succinctly and clearly told,
which is absolutely necessary to understand if we are to deal with
the post-9/11 tragedies of American foreign policy. Walter Nugent
rightly identifies those tragedies as the culminations of a
post-1776 American 'ideology of expansion.'"
--Walter LaFeber, Tisch University Professor Emeritus, Cornell
University, author of" America, Russia, and the Cold War"
"Walter Nugent is a national treasure. No historian since Frederick
Jackson Turner has done more to explain the enormous impact of
westward expansion upon the American experience. Elegantly written,
impeccably researched, Habits of Empire will soon take its place, I
suspect, among the most important historical commentaries of our
era."
--David Oshinsky, author of "Polio: An American Story
"
"How did the United States come to regard itself as morally
superior to other nations and entitled to employ force rather than
persuasion to get its way? This lucid, wide-ranging book not only
answers that question but offers essential understandings for those
who wish to break the bad habits of empire."
--David J. Weber, author of "Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages
in the Age of Enlightenment.
"
"At last, the essential background, succinctly and clearly told,
which is absolutely necessary to understand if we are to deal with
the post-9/11 tragedies of American foreign policy. Walter Nugent
rightly identifies those tragedies as the culminations of a
post-1776 American 'ideology of expansion.'"
--Walter LaFeber, Tisch University Professor Emeritus, Cornell
University, author of" America, Russia, and the Cold War"
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