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Introduction / Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston -- Getting grand strategy right : clearing away common fallacies in the grand strategy debate / Hal Brands -- The blob and the mob : on grand strategy and social change / Beverly Gage -- Turning the tide : the application of grand strategy to global health / Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor -- Extending the sphere : a Federalist grand strategy / Charles Edel -- Grand strategy of the master class : slavery and foreign policy from the antebellum era to the Civil War / Matthew Karp -- A useful category of analysis? Grand strategy and US foreign relations from the Civil War through World War I / Katherine Epstein -- Grand strategies (or ascendant ideas) since 1919 / David Milne -- Woodrow Wilson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and beyond : American internationalists and the crucible of World War I / Christopher McKnight Nichols -- Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, and grand strategy : constructing the postwar order / Elizabeth Borgwardt -- Foreign policy begins at home : Americans, grand strategy, and World War II / Michaela Hoenicke Moore -- National security as grand strategy : Edward Mead Earle and the burdens of world power / Andrew Preston -- The misanthropy diaries : containment, democracy, and the prejudices of George Frost Kennan / David Greenberg -- Implementing grand strategy : the Nixon-Kissinger revolution at the National Security Council / William Inboden -- George H.W. Bush : strategy and the stream of history / Jeffrey A. Engel -- Foreign missions and strategy, foreign missions as strategy / Emily Conroy-Krutz -- The unbearable whiteness of grand strategy / Adriane Lentz-Smith -- Rival visions of nationhood : immigration policy, grand strategy, and contentious politics / Daniel J. Tichenor -- Disastrous grand strategy : US humanitarian assistance and global natural catastrophe / Julia F. Irwin -- Denizens of a center : rethinking early Cold War grand strategy / Ryan Irwin -- Reproductive politics and grand strategy / Laura Briggs -- Casualties and the concept of grandness : a view from the Korean War / Mary L. Dudziak -- American grand strategy : how grand has it been? How much does it matter? / Fredrik Logevall.