American Foreign Policy - Paperback

by John Zeugner (Author)

Thomas Ausa, an obscure but adequately credentialed professor of American International Relations, at the end of his career imagined he might best illustrate what he called the "themes" or "frames" or "buzzwords" of American foreign policy by telling a few stories about typical Americans living through these pandemic times in ways he hoped would illustrate terms like "deterrence," "containment," "asymmetrical warfare," and "mutual assured destruction." The novel fragment he left attempts to do that. Whether he succeeded only future readers, if any, will tell. The afterword by Liv Wells, former U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission at several American embassies, doesn't help much.

Author Biography

John Zeugner, Professor of History, Emeritus, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a recipient of a NEA Discovery Grant for fiction, has published six novels and three collections of short stories or short novels.