Lives at Risk: Hostages and Victims in American Foreign Policy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780842025539)

Lives at Risk: Hostages and Victims in American Foreign Policy is the first book that provides the historical content needed to understand terrorism and America's responses to terrorist acts. Historian Russell D. Buhite here examines key instances of hostage-taking throughout U.S. history, from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, and shows how our policies have evolved and how previous experiences can help us deal with terrorist threats today.

Professor Buhite begins this study with a discussion of the special problems that the United States has faced in dealing with hostage crises. The subsequent chapters then proceed chronologically through U.S. history, narrating major hostage incidents and tracing changes in Washington's stance toward terrorists. Lives at Risk will appeal to teachers of courses in foreign policy, diplomatic history, general history, and political science.

Author: Russell D. Buhite
ISBN-10: 0842025537
ISBN-13: 9780842025539
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1995
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.02w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/1995 pg. 192