{"id":48448,"date":"2018-09-11T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=48448"},"modified":"2018-09-11T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:32:34","slug":"local-author-danny-toma-signs-his-book-america-first-understanding-the-trump-doctrine-tuesday-september-11-at-off-square-books-in-oxford-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/local-author-danny-toma-signs-his-book-america-first-understanding-the-trump-doctrine-tuesday-september-11-at-off-square-books-in-oxford-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Author Danny Toma Signs His Book &#8220;America First: Understanding the Trump Doctrine&#8221; Tuesday, September 11 at Off Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For decades, Americans have been conditioned to believe &#8220;foreign policy&#8221; is the policy of prioritizing the interests of foreign nations over American interests. After all, that&#8217;s how previous\u00a0presidential administrations have behaved. But <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> won the presidency because he promised a foreign policy that put America first. So what does Trump&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; foreign policy doctrine mean in practice? What does putting America first actually look like in terms of our relations with the nearly two hundred countries around the globe? This book, written for those who scratch their heads at the mention of South Ossetia or Kurdistan, will take the entire world and break it down piece by piece, showing where America&#8217;s vital interests lie in the current geopolitical climate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Danny\u00a0Toma<\/strong>\u00a0served for over twenty-two years as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. Prior to that,\u00a0he taught history for several years in the Choctaw Tribal School System near <strong>Philadelphia, Mississippi<\/strong>. He lives in <strong>Oxford<\/strong>, Mississippi.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Americans have been conditioned to believe &#8220;foreign policy&#8221; is the policy of prioritizing the interests of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":48449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[12596,1975,13172,13171,7300,5,4,1723,602],"class_list":["post-48448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-america-first","tag-book","tag-choctaw-tribal-school-system","tag-danny-toma","tag-donald-trump","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-philadelphia","tag-square-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2018-09-11-DannyToma.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}