本书是一部评述美国对外政策的作品。美国《现代历史杂志》(1961年6月号)介绍说,本书作者之所以应该受到重视,不是因为他作出了出奇的结论,而是因为他的作品中具有独创的和敏锐的内容。作者见解中最突出的一点,是他认为美国人认识和处理国内外事务时,一向遵循着一种“民族形式”.作者在分析艾森豪威尔执政时期的外交事务时,也无法减轻他对“民族形式”的持久作用的悲观 This book is a work that comments on U.S. foreign policy. According to the U.S. Journal of Modern History (June 1961), the author of this book deserves attention not because he has made surprising conclusions, but because he has original and sensitive content in his work. The most prominent point of the author’s opinion is that in his opinion, when Americans recognize and deal with domestic and foreign affairs, they always follow a “national form.” When analyzing the foreign affairs of Eisenhower during his administration, he failed to lessen his influence on the "national form Pessimistic role of lasting pessimism