The Realist: Hans Morgenthau and the Purpose of American Power

The first biography of Hans Morgenthau, the pioneering political philosopher who escaped Nazi Germany and pioneered the approach to international relations—realism—that guided the United States through the Cold War and explains today’s world

“International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.” Hans Morgenthau wrote those words at the dawn of the Cold War, as Americans were attempting to understand the emerging global rivalry with the Soviet Union. His book, Politics Among Na...