Angelo M. Codevilla - Americas Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams

ALSO BY ANGELO M. CODEVILLA

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The Arms Control Delusion

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While Others Build: The Commonsense Approach to the Strategic

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War: Ends and Means

Basic Books, 1989

Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century

Free Press, 1992

American Security: Back to Basics

Hoover Institution Press, 1994

Principe [The Prince]

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Yale University Press, 1997

Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and

Moral Blackmail Today

Regnery Publishing, 2000

No Victory, No Peace

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Seriousness and Character: The Intellectual History of American

Foreign Policy

Yale University Press, 2006

Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft

Basic Books, 2009

The Character of Nations: How Politics Makes and Breaks

Prosperity, Family, and Civility

Basic Books, 2009

The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can

Do About It

Beaufort Books, 2010

A Students Guide to International Relations

ISI Books, 2010

To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations

Hoover Institution Press, 2014

Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century

The fruit of many years experience of intelligence service, this is a masterful exploration of the field, its critical role in statecraft, and the principles underlying its use and misuse [a] closely reasoned, authoritative study.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Codevillas Informing Statecraft is an excellent work. It reads like a novel, yet it is sure to become one of the most useful reference books in the library of anyone who works with or benefits from intelligence. I will return to it again and again. Read it at your first opportunity.

JULIE NEUMANNNaval War College Review

The Character of Nations: How PoliticsMakes and Breaks Prosperity, Family, and Civility

Codevilla does a good job of demonstrating the social effects of policy.

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, Foreign Affairs

[T]he thesis is simply a sturdy framework on which Codevilla mounts his contention that America today is rotting because its government lacks a basic belief in the rule of law and morality.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Mr. Codevillas two argumentsagainst government activism and for government retrenchmentare eloquently presented in this book, and they are eminently plausible. The Character of Nations helps us to think about recent, and, it seems, ever-widening fissures in the conservative movement.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

An impressive catalog of how regimes in different nations have shaped the character of their citizens and a sobering alarm about what America is doing to itself.

ROBERT L. BARTLEY, Pulitzer Prize winner,Wall Street Journal

A powerfully articulated essay of discontent with the status quo.

BOOKLIST

Advice to War Presidents:A Remedial Course in Statecraft

Accessible Codevilla writes intelligently on topics as diverse as the affect of economic sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s and contemporary relations between Russia and Georgia.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Compelling reading. There is no shortage of wisdom and wit in Codevillas book bracing and intelligent.

BRET STEPHENS, Claremont Review of Books

Advice to War Presidents proffers a bracing tonic for dealing with the world as it is and how to more effectively match means to ends in foreign policy.

JOHN COFFEY, U.S. Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Veteran international relations author Codevilla questions basic assumptions that have guided U.S. foreign policy since Woodrow Wilson tried to make the world safe for democracy. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.

LIBRARY JOURNAL

Machiavelli could not have written a better book to give advice to war presidents.

AMERICAN SPECTATOR

A Students Guide to International Relations

Angelo Codevilla teaches as one having authority. The new book by the former Foreign Service officer and professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, A Students Guide to International Relations delivers the same kind of wisdom and brilliant analysis that filled his earlier books, War: Ends and Means and The Character of Nations.

CALEB NELSON, WORLD Magazine

[T]hese slim volumes come close to constituting mini-great books in themselves.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselvesand with All Nations

Angelo Codevilla makes clear that peace is not preordained. There once was a popular advertisement When E. F. Hutton speaks we listen. When Angelo Codevilla writes To Make and Keep Peace, we listen.

J. WILLIAM MIDDENDORF IISecretary of the Navy, 19741977

To Make and Keep Peace is an eloquent and deeply thoughtful reflection upon the greatest issue of statecraft, war and peace. It is distilled from a career in academia and high levels of government service. Angelo Codevilla has the breadth and depth of experience combined with the intellectual horsepower to understand the dynamics of international power and politics and to see clearly what must be done to avoid repeating the tragic blunders of history. Most importantly he has a precise yet fluid style that engages specialist and nonspecialist alike.

JOHN LEHMAN, Secretary of the Navy, 19811987, and member of the 9/11 Commission

Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams

ANGELO M. CODEVILLA

NEW YORK LONDON

2022 by Angelo M. Codevilla

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Codevilla, Angelo, 19432021, author.

Title: Americas Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams / by Angelo M. Codevilla.

Description: First American edition. | New York, New York: Encounter Books, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2021048433 (print) | LCCN 2021048434 (ebook) | ISBN 9781641772723 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781641772730 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Adams, John Quincy, 17671848Influence. | National securityUnited States--History. | Nationalism-United StatesHistory. | United StatesForeign relations.

Classification: LCC E183.7 .C597 2022 (print) | LCC E183.7 (ebook) |