Book contents
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of an Atlantic Federalist, 1914–1939
- 2 The Making and Selling of Union Now, 1939–1941
- 3 The Wartime Pursuit of Federal Union, 1940–1945
- 4 Clarence Streit and Federal Union during the Cold War
- 5 Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and Postwar Atlanticism
- Conclusion
- List of Archives
- Index
5 - Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and Postwar Atlanticism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
Book contents
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Making of an Atlantic Federalist, 1914–1939
- 2 The Making and Selling of Union Now, 1939–1941
- 3 The Wartime Pursuit of Federal Union, 1940–1945
- 4 Clarence Streit and Federal Union during the Cold War
- 5 Clarence Streit, the Atlantic Union Committee, and Postwar Atlanticism
- Conclusion
- List of Archives
- Index
Summary
Chapter 5 concentrates on Streit’s efforts as a political lobbyist, primarily with the Atlantic Union Committee (AUC), a Washington lobby group and vocal proponent of Atlanticism during the 1950s and into the 1960s. If Streit’s federal union project represented one version of Atlanticism, the AUC’s extended give-and-take with Congress acted as a midwife to the emergence in the early 1960s of an opposing version. Imagined as a community of transatlantic elites centered in and on the United States, this Atlanticism continues to dominate Washington politics today.
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- Clarence Streit and Twentieth-Century American Internationalism , pp. 169 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023