Joan Hoff is the former CEO and President of the Center for the Study of the Presidency in New York City, former Executive Secretary of the Organization of American Historians, and former Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. She is now Research Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman.

'Hoff has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy. This is a book that should be read widely, not only discussed among academics. … Hoff presents a 'more positive legacy' that could be achieved if the United States followed a different path. … many readers will be looking forward to her next effort.' The Review of Politics

• Introduction: foundations of U.S. Faustian foreign policy; 1. America forms and refines its diplomacy; 2. The impact of World War I on U.S. diplomacy; 3. Faustian aspects of prosperity, depression, and war; 4. Faustian aspects of U.S. Cold War foreign policy; 5. Cold War transformation of the American presidency; 6. The United States adrift in the post-Cold War world; 7. Flaunting U.S. Faustian foreign policy; Epilogue: the legacy of George W. Bush.

Joan Hoff is the former CEO and President of the Center for the Study of the Presidency in New York City, former Executive Secretary of the Organization of American Historians, and former Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. She is now Research Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman.

'Hoff has made a valuable contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy. This is a book that should be read widely, not only discussed among academics. … Hoff presents a 'more positive legacy' that could be achieved if the United States followed a different path. … many readers will be looking forward to her next effort.' The Review of Politics

• Introduction: foundations of U.S. Faustian foreign policy; 1. America forms and refines its diplomacy; 2. The impact of World War I on U.S. diplomacy; 3. Faustian aspects of prosperity, depression, and war; 4. Faustian aspects of U.S. Cold War foreign policy; 5. Cold War transformation of the American presidency; 6. The United States adrift in the post-Cold War world; 7. Flaunting U.S. Faustian foreign policy; Epilogue: the legacy of George W. Bush.