Frank Ninkovich

Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger – By Bruce Kuklick

(whether of class or gender). Addams was late to embrace labor unions; she only gradually accepted the idea that women had a role to play in civic life, including electoral politics. As late as 1896, she still had not publicly spoken in favor of women’s suffrage (362, 397). However, by 1899 Addams had arrived at all these positions and rejected the older individualism for a broader “social ethic” that included the promise that “uncultured people” could set their own course, hence the “citizen” of the title (355, 331). Yet in one or two places the reader is brought face to face with the paradox that the settlement house, a demonstration project for communitarian ethics, was sustained by the money of wealthy women such as Helen Culver and Mary Wilmarth. Knight acknowledges this fact, but she does not let it dim her portrait of Addams as a prophet of democracy. In one example, Knight explains that Hull House, with its continuous stream of visitors, was no place for a writer: “When Addams needed a quiet place to think and write, she would often go to Mary Wilmarth’s suite of rooms at the Congress Hotel (Wilmarth owned it)” (335). In that quick aside we are reminded of the privilege of class and whiteness that undergirded Addams’s role as philosopher and social critic.

Where Have All the Realists Gone

Book reviewed in this article: Michael J. Hogan (ed.),The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the “American Century.”

Entangling Relations: American Foreign Policy in Its Century

List of Figures and TablesPrefaceCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2Security Relationships17Ch. 3A Theory of Relational Contracting35Ch. 4The Lone Hand78Ch. 5Cold War Cooperation128Ch. 6Gullivers Triumph198Ch. 7Relational Contracting and International Relations263Ch. 8Conclusion285References299Index325