Seth JacobsRogue Diplomats
The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy
Seth Jacobs is Professor of History at Boston College and the author of The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos (2012), Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963 (2006), and America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957 (2004).
Introduction
1. "It Is Glory to Have Broken Such Infamous Orders": Adams, Jay, and Franklin Midwife the Republic
2. "Service without Authority": Livingston and Monroe Buy Louisiana
3. "Instructions or No Instructions": Trist Makes Peace with Mexico
4. "I Have Now Read the Dispatch, But I Do Not Agree with It": Page Preserves America's "Special Relationship"
5. "No 'Rubber Stamp' Ambassador": Kennedy Appeases the Dictators
6. "We Can't Fire Him": Lodge Engineers a Coup
Conclusion
