history with racism, with slavery and the sorts of populations that existed in Latin America. And I have a lot of really great illustrations in the book from Puck and some from ... Are you familiar with these illustrations of Dr. Seuss that he did during the interwar period? No, I'm not. Do they have racial content? Well, those are not racial. Those are related to isolationism and they have these great images of ostriches putting their heads in the sand and Uncle Sam sleeping in a bed next to Europe as they're suffering under Nazi fever. But the racial component and xenophobia and the correlation between isolationist impulses and those qualities I think is interesting and something to explore. I want to actually drill in a bit more about this point about Western expansion and then that could maybe lead us into a definition of isolationism. How do we define isolationism? Because again, for me it's a bit complicated. Is it fair to say that the reason that the United States was (12/33)
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