| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Swallowed by Globalism: John M. Vorys and American Foreign Policy. By Jeffery C. Livingston. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2001. xii, 193 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-7618-1985-1.)

This thin volume tells the story of Rep. John Vorys, a Republican from Ohio who served in Congress from 1939 to 1959. Like the Michigan Republican senator Arthur Vandenberg, Vorys was a prominent isolationist who made the transition to globalism after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In many ways, Vorys was the epitome of the WASP East Coast establishment: a Yalie, a football letterman, and a member of the secretive and elitist Skull and Bones society, he volunteered for pilot training and served in the Great War. He spent a year in China as a missionary and later became a noted figure in the China lobby. Vorys loathed Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal; he was elected to Congress in 1938 as part of a Republican backlash and was assigned to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. . . .

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