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Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan

Dangerous Nation

America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

by Robert Kagan
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  • Oct 10, 2006, 544 pages
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  • Nov 2007, 544 pages
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