Originally published in 1960 by Princeton University Press, this volume contends that a full understanding of the underlying philosophy of political realism is necessary if American statesmen and scholars are to advance public understanding and awareness of the realities of international life and close the gap between what leaders feel and do and what the people imagine they do. The author's central aim is a careful explication of the origins of political realism as an approach to American foreign policy and of its implications for the major unsolved fundamental problems of America's relations with the rest of the world.
