Download or read book Trials and Triumphs written by Frank Reuter and published by A. M. Pate, Jr. the American P. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When george washington took office, the territory now known as the United States had been for many years a pawn in the struggle between Europe's great powers. It might easily have remained so had not Washington set about the invention of a firm but flexible foreign policy. Reuter discusses the ways that Washington and his administration, while dealing with the day-to-day expediencies of establishing a new nation safe from both her friends and enemies, set the precedents which would govern both the manner and matter of American foreign policy for a century and a half. Book jacket.