TY - JOUR
AU - Lafeber, Walter
AB - WALTER LAFEBER A discussion of Fred Harvey Harrington’s work appropriately follows papers on Professors Saimuel Flagg Bemis and Thomas A. Bailey. Chrono- logically, Harrington belongs to a later generation. It can be argued moreover that he has taught us to build on Bemis’s and Bailey’s contributions. Bemis instructed us about the irnportance of using multiarchival research to lay bare international relationships, and he presented-especially in his work on John Quincy Adams-the elitre policymaker’s view of those relationships. Bailey turned Bemis inside out. Spending remarkably little time in foreign archives, Bailey forced us to look more closely at the internal causes of American foreign policy. His major contribution was to make us aware of public opin- ion’s role in policymaking, especially as that opinion was manifest in Con- gress, newspapers, and periodicals. Bailey and his time, in this regard, were perfectly matched. The internal mainsprings of U.S. foreign policy became more important precisely during Bailey’s heyday of the 1940s and 1950s when the United States, as the world’s superpower, forced other nations to react to its initiatives. If a problem arose with Bailey’s approach, it came (as Bernard Cohen and others have noted) with his reluctance to ask which groups 
TI - Fred Harvey Harrington
JO - Diplomatic History
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-7709.1985.tb00540.x
DA - 1985-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/fred-harvey-harrington-NHnZrDUvS9
SP - 311
EP - 319
VL - 9
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -