Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1971

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Marina, William

Abstract

The thesis investigates the paradoxical similarity of the foreign policy views of right-wing "isolationists" in the late 1940's and the early 1950's and those of comtemporary left-wing critics. Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, Representative Howard Buffet of Nebraska, and the publicists Frank Chodorov, Garet Garrett, Louis Bromfield, and Felix Morley believed that imperial American policy would continually risk war, and that centralization, militarism, staggering taxation, inflation and a garrison state would inevitably result from taking the path of empire. As classical liberals, they saw the imperial impetus to stat ism as the major threat to libertarian values and, hence, opposed vigorous foreign policy. The Korean War was a watershed: most Rightists, even Taft, became Asian interventionists. The publicists, not needing to win voters committed to Cold War, held the old views longer. The rise of National Review contributed to the demise of right-wing anti-intervencionism. Contemporary libertarianism revives the old viewpoint.

Extent

133 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13469

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