“A lively, well-written history of America's foreign policy and diplomacy from 1776 to the present. This is a superb synthesis, in places quite provocative in its arguments, and a signal accomplishment.”──George Herring, University of Kentucky
“A Nation Like All Others is a book like none other. Cohen offers an authoritative but brief overview of American interactions with the wider world from the founding of the nation to our present day. Cohen covers all the major events with acute observations about the sources of policy, compelling judgments of decision makers, and thoughtful ruminations about how things fit together (or not). This is an opinionated survey of American trials and tribulations, delivered as a single narrative with larger-than-life protagonists.”──Jeremi Suri, University of Texas at Austin
“In this brief and illuminating account of U.S. foreign policy from Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution to Donald Trump and "America first," Warren Cohen displays the wisdom and insight that have made him one of the country's most admired chroniclers of American diplomacy. Lamenting the nation's loss of its moral compass, Cohen deftly probes the economic, strategic, and domestic political imperatives that make it so difficult to reconcile the exceptionalism he cherishes with the realism he admires.”──Melvyn P. Leffler, Edward Stettinius Professor of American History, University of Virginia
“Warren Cohen's lucid writing and distinguished scholarship have settled key questions in the history of U.S.-Asian relations, and he does the same here in magnificently relating 400 years of U.S. relations with the world. Gem-like portrayals of Ben Franklin through McKinley (the 1890s marked "the point of no return" for Americans), to Obama will attract students and general readers alike.”──Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
