The turkey and the eagle the struggle for America's global role - Rossiter, Caleb S. (Algora Pub., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
In 1784 Benjamin Franklin advocated choosing the industrious, home-loving wild turkey rather than the thieving, wide-ranging bald eagle as the symbol of the United States. Franklin lost that debate, and since then advocates of cooperation as America's global role have been similarly losing their struggle with advocates of U.S. domination. The author recounts that struggle, with particular emphasis on the past 30 years, which he spent working in and around Congress with groups opposed to U.S. support for repressive yet "friendly" regimes. He then proposes electoral reforms and a revol
pt. 1. Lessons from the past -- pt. 2. Noble distractions -- pt. 3. Reforms and revolutions