Makers of American Diplomacy: From Benjamin Franklin to Alfred Thayer Mahan

xvii, 317 pp. CONTENTS: Ben Franklin in France: A Maker of American Diplomacy; Alexander Hamilton and the Diplomacy of Influence; Thomas Jefferson: The Idealist as Realist; From Independence to War: James Madison and American Foreign Policy; John Quincy Adams: Empiricism and Empire; Charles Wilkes and the Growth of American Naval Diplomacy; James K. Polk and Rewards of Rashness; Imperial Dreamer: William Henry Seward and American Destiny; Hamilton Fish and American Expansion; James Gillespie Blaine: The Ideologue as Diplomatist; Alfred Thayer Mahan: Turning America Back to the Sea.