Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America From Colonial Dependence to World Leadership

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ONE - THE ASPIRANT STATE, 1754-1836

CHAPTER ONE - The Path to Independence

1. THE GREAT POWERS AND THE AMERICAS

2. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND EARLY SKIRMISHING IN AMERICA

3. THE OUTBREAK OF THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR

4. THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR, AMERICA

5. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE WAR IN EUROPE

6. THE WAR IN AMERICA, 1758

7. THE WAR IN THE WEST INDIES AND AFRICA, 1759

8. THE FALL OF QUEBEC

9. THE WAR IN EUROPE, 1759

10. THE END OF THE WAR IN AMERICA, 1760

11. THE END OF THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR

12. ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AFTER 1763

13. THE STAMP ACT

14. FRANKLIN’S DIPLOMACY IN LONDON, 1764–1767

15. THE TOWNSHEND TAXES

16. THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

CHAPTER TWO - Independence

1. THE END OF EMPIRE IN LONDON

2. THE OUTBREAK OF WAR

3. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

4. WAR, THE FIRST PHASE

5. FRANCE JOINS THE WAR

6. THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN, 1779–1781

7. YORKTOWN

8. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

9. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

CHAPTER THREE - Creating a New Republic and Launching It in the World, 1789–1809

1. THE WASHINGTON PRESINDENCY

2. THE RIVALRY BETWEEN HAMILTON AND JEFFERSON

3. WASHINGTON’S SECOND TERM

4. RELATIONS WITH FRANCE AND BRITAIN

5. JOHN ADAMS AS PRESIDENT AND THE CRISIS WITH FRANCE

6. THE NATURALIZATION, ALIEN, AND SEDITION ACTS

7. JEFFERSON AS PRESIDENT

8. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE

9. HAMILTON AND BURR

10. RESPONDING TO WAR IN EUROPE

11. ASSESSING THOMAS JEFFERSON

CHAPTER FOUR - Reconciling with Britain Abroad, and with Slavery at Home, 1809–1836

1. JAMES MADISON AS PRESIDENT

2. THE WAR OF 1812

3. THE 1812 ELECTION

4. THE WAR: THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1813

5. MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC DEVELOPMENTS IN 1814

6. THE END OF THE WAR

7. JAMES MONROE AS PRESIDENT

8. THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE

9. THE MONROE DOCTRINE

10. THE 1824 ELECTION AND PRESIDSENT JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

11. THE RISE OF JACKSON

12. THE UNION AND SLAVERY

13. JACKSON’S SECOND TERM: NULLIFICATION AND THE NATIONAL BANK

14. STRATEGIC REVIEW

TWO - THE PREDESTINED PEOPLE, 1836–1933

CHAPTER FIVE - Slavery

1. THE PRESIDENCY OF MARTIN VAN BUREN

2. THE LOG CABIN AND HARD CIDER ELECTION

3. THE TYLER PRESIDENCY

4. THE 1844 ELECTION

5. PRESIDENT JAMES K. POLK AND THE MEXICAN WAR

6. THE 1848 ELECTION

7. THE COMPROMISE OF 1850

8. THE SLIDE TOWARD DISUNION

9. KANSAS AND NEBRASKA

10. BUCHANAN AND THE REPUBLICANS

11. DRED SCOTT AND LECOMPTON

12. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

CHAPTER SIX - Civil War and Reconstruction

1. THE 1860 ELECTION

2. CIVIL WAR AT LAST

3. ANTIETAM AND RELATIONS WITH THE BRITISH AND THE FRENCH

4. THE TURNING POINT: VICKSBURG AND GETTYSBURG

5. GRANT BEFORE RICHMOND, SHERMAN IN GEORGIA, AND THE 1864 ELECTION

6. THE END OF THE WAR AND THE DEATH OF LINCOLN

7. AMERICA AND THE WORLD

8. RECONSTRUCTION

9. ULYSSES GRANT AS PRESIDENT

10. THE 1876 ELECTION, HAYES, GARFIELD, ARTHUR, AND CLEVELAND’S FIRST TERM

CHAPTER SEVEN - A New Great Power in the World, 1889–1914

1. BENJAMIN HARRISON

2. CLEVELAND’S SECOND PRESIDENCY

3. WILLIAM MCKINLEY AND THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

4. THE REELECTION AND ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY

5. PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT

6. ROOSEVELT’S SECOND TERM

7. PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

8. THE TAFT-ROOSEVELT SCHISM AND THE 1912 ELECTION

9. WOODROW WILSON’S FIRST TERM—DOMESTIC REFORMS, AND MEXICO

10. WORLD WAR I

CHAPTER EIGHT - The Crisis of Democracy

1. THE WESTERN FRONT

2. DIPLOMATIC INITIATIVES

3. THE 1916 ELECTION AND UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE

4. THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE WAR

5. THE ARMISTICE

6. THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE

7. THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES

8. THE 1920 ELECTION

9. WARREN G. HARDING AND CALVIN COOLIDGE

10. HERBERT HOOVER

11. THE 1929 CRASH

12. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND ARMS CONTROL

13. JAPAN AND THE BEGINNING OF WAR

14. THE POLITICS OF DEPRESSION

THREE - THE INDISPENSABLE COUNTRY, 1933 -1957

CHAPTER NINE - Toward America’s Rendezvous with Destiny, 1933–1941

1. THE STRATEGIC HERITAGE AND PROSPECTS OF AMERICA IN 1933

2. THE NEW DEAL

3. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE WORLD

4. ROOSEVELT’S SECOND TERM

5. RISING TENSIONS IN EUROPE

6. THE DESCENT TO WAR

7. THE GERMAN BLITZKRIEG, WINSTON CHURCHILL, AND THE FALL OF FRANCE

8. THE THIRD TERM

9. THE FOUR FREEDOMS AND LEND-LEASE

10. THE RUSSO-GERMAN WAR

11. THE ATLANTIC CHARTER

12. THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN

CHAPTER TEN - The Victory of Democracy in the West, 1941–1945

1. DAY OF INFAMY

2. EARLY MONTHS OF TOTAL WAR

3. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE

4. DIVERGENT WAR AIMS

5. THE CASABLANCA AND TRIDENT CONFERENCES

6. KURSK, THE FALL OF MUSSOLINI, AND THE FIRST QUEBEC CONFERENCE

7. THE CAIRO AND TEHRAN CONFERENCES

8. THE RETURN OF THE ALLIES: D-DAY

9. THE BATTLE OF FRANCE

10. CLOSING IN ON GERMANY AND JAPAN

11. THE 1944 ELECTION AND THE BATTLE OF THE ARDENNES

CHAPTER ELEVEN - From World War to Cold War, 1945–1951

1. YALTA

2. THE FINAL OFFENSIVES

3. THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE

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