Practicing history: selected essays

In search of history

When does history happen?

History by the ounce

The historian as artist

The historian's opportunity

Problems in writing the biography of General Stilwell

The houses of research

Biography as a prism of history

Japan: a clinical note

Campaign train

What Madrid reads

"Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead"

The final solution

Israel: land of unlimited impossibilities

Woodrow Wilson on Freud's couch

How we entered World War I

Israel's swift sword

If Mao had come to Washington

The assimilationist dilemma: Ambassador Morgenthau's story

Kissinger: self-portrait

Mankind's better moments

Is history a guide to the future?

Vietnam

When, why, and how to get out

Coalition in Vietnam- not worth one more life

The citizen versus the military

Historical clues to present discontents

Generalship

Why policy-makers do not listen

Watergate and the presidency

Should we abolish the presidency?

A fear of the remedy

A letter to the House of Representatives

Defusing the presidency

On our birthday- America as idea.