America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century, by Tony Smith, Princeton University Press, 1995

The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the twentieth century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith. Here for the first time is a book that documents the extraordinary history of American foreign policy with respect to the promotion of democracy worldwide, an effort whose greatest triumph came in the occupations of Japan and Germany but whose setbacks include interventions in Latin America and Vietnam.

"Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not, as Kissinger sometimes implies, a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends."--Francis Fukuyama, The New Republic

"[Smith's] account of the 20th century is just about as close to unputdownable as it gets in the genre of political history, and ends up advocating what seems to be an appropriate level of optimism for what remains, after all, a terrifying and chaotic world."--Washington Post

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