Description: "Utopian and foreign policy students alike will welcome Matarese's ground-breaking work. Her innovative research reveals for the first time the potent, direct link between American utopian thought and American foreign policy."--Donald E. Pitzer, University of Southern Indiana "Matarese's primary scholarship is outstanding. This is by far the most thorough and comprehensive survey of attitudes about international relations expressed in American utopian literature. . . . It is a convincing historical presentation of the resiliency of popular American notions of 'nation' and 'international.'"--Kenneth Roemer, University of Texas, Arlington "Matarese does an excellent job of showing how deep the utopian mindset is within American popular culture and how durable it has remained over time. Those who care about the ideas that drive Americans' sense of their place in the world will need to read this insightful study."--Joseph Lepgold, Georgetown University "This book's important topic is one that has not been treated systematically by anyone else. . . . Matarese writes clearly and crisply, which should make her work accessible to nonspecialists and students alike."--Howard P. Segal, University of Maine, Orono "This is a book with a telos, a guiding purpose or end in view, but it does not preach, trusting itself to make its case via demonstration."--Utopian Studies "Matarese has performed a valuable service in surveying the literature of the once-and-future America. She has tracked down titles long forgotten . . . and identified themes that ran through the genre. . . . She provides a welcome overview of the work of some of the big thinkers of American history and diplomacy. Graduate students and nonspecialists will find her notes illuminating."--International Politics "In this slender but substantial work, Matarese analyzes 212 utopian novels dating from the heyday of US utopian fiction writing (1888-1900) in search of the national image as related to the content of foreign policy. . . . Recommended, particularly to students of foreign policy, normative though, and political culture."--Choice

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