You Run the Show or the Show Runs You

For most of the second half of the 20th century, Harold W. Rood taught international relations, diplomacy and military power, and American foreign Policy at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont Graduate School, and in the Defense and Strategic Studies programs at the University of Southern California and Missouri State University. His work was a relentless challenge to the conventional wisdom of his day, and by advancing alternative theories to those held by his contemporaries, his controversial but stimulating work produced not only a corpus of original writing, but also greatly influenced generations of students who would go on to play key leadership roles in the conservative movement. In this book, authors J.D. Crouch and Patrick J. Garrity document and synthesize Rood's core teachings. Rood wanted to instruct his students in the hard logic of power, and the vital importance of national strategy, summed up in his favorite aphorism: "You run the show or the show runs you." This book celebrates Rood gift as an extraordinary teacher and captures for future generations his relentless way of challenging conventional wisdom and instilling in his students the ability to think independently of fashionable orthodoxy.