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Walter Russell Mead on his book Special Providence (2003x17)

Air date: Mar 24, 2003

Walter Russell Mead - winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for outstanding writing on international affairs on his book Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. The book examines American foreign policy over the past two centuries, since the United States was a string of settlements on the edge of the known world.