TY - BOOK AU - Immerman,Richard H. TI - Empire for liberty: a history of American imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz SN - 978-0-691-12762-0 U1 - 973 21E PY - 2010/// CY - Princeton, Oxford PB - Princeton University Press KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Territorial expansion KW - History KW - Imperialism KW - Liberty KW - Political aspects N1 - Index; Notes bibliogr; Introduction : contending with the American empire -- Benjamin Franklin and America's imperial vision -- John Quincy Adams and America's tortured empire -- Wlliam Henry Seward reimagines the American empire -- Henry Cabot Lodge and the new American empire -- John Foster Dulles and the conflicted empire -- Paul Wolfowitz and the lonely empire -- Postscript : the dark side ER -