Last Years

The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine, 1945-1993 by Gaddis Smith Review by: Daniel Greene Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2, Leadership, Organization, and Security (Spring, 1995), pp. 323-325 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27551428 . Accessed: 14/06/2013 22:53
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dents. The book is worthy reading for all concerned state of our chief executive office. with talk and the

presidential

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Gaddis

Smith,

The Last Years

Monroe of the

Doctrine,

1945-1993,

(New York:

Hill

andWang,
Yale historian

1994), 280 pp. $25.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-8090-6475-8).
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