Praise for Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1897:

Howard Jones draws on his remarkable breadth as a historian of U.S. foreign relations to produce a distinguished survey of America's growth as an emerging power in the 1890s to its present-day position of global preeminence. His exposition is precise; his sources, exhaustive; his illustrations, revealing.

Richard H. Immerman, Temple University

Praise for Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1897:

Straightforward and direct, Crucible of Power provides students with an accessible means of gaining entrée into the history of U.S. foreign relations.

Mark T. Gilderhus, Lyndon B. Johnson Chair, Texas Christian University

Praise for Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1897:

In a volume characteristic of his broad-ranging and important scholarship on U.S. foreign relations, Professor Jones has written a comprehensive, tempered, and highly accessible narrative account of the nation's twentieth-century international involvements.

Joseph A. Fry, University of Nevada, Las Vegas