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Who steers U.S. foreign policy when the cameras are off? James Perloff, author of this new 2025 edition, traces the Council on Foreign Relations through its origins, membership pipelines, publications, and closed-door study groups, showing how ideas and personnel move into Washington. Case studies run from FDR and World War II to Vietnam, Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, with a chapter on media silence and another on solutions. New edition includes an updated 2025 CFR list (Council on Foreign Relations) and a new Foreword by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.