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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power de Fred Kaplan

Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Autor Fred Kaplan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2008
America′s power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the present day.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780470422816
ISBN-10: 0470422815
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 148 x 226 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

Public țintă

The push to do something about the Iranian nuclear program is getting bigger every day.  And the primary voices are all exactly the sort of daydreamers this book is about––still making the same mistakes.

Descriere

"Illuminating . . . incisive." The New York Times
"A lively and entertaining if occasionally horrifying read. . . . Like a master archaeologist who can see through the shards and stones of a dig to reconstruct the culture of the city below, Kaplan lays out all the failures, omissions, and delusions of Bush administration officials. The result is an account of the pathologies . . . of Washington itself . . . a caution about the limits of purely military power and the dangers of seeing the world as a morality play."
Washington Post Book World
"Excellent and devastating. . . . Go, please, and buy Kaplan′s book. His great work deserves attention and reward."
Joe Klein, Time
"The inside history of our time, told with precision and confidence, by an author who knows where the secrets are kept."
Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco
"For me, this book was full of revelations." James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic
The disasters of American foreign policy these last eight years are well known. Why they happened continues to puzzle many. How to repair the damage is the biggest challenge the next president will face. In Daydream Believers, celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan "one of our most incisive thinkers about strategic issues," according to Walter Isaacson combines in–depth reporting and razor–sharp analysis to explain just how America got so far off track. Kaplan traces the origins of these catastrophic ideas, how they developed from as far back as fifty years ago, and how our next leaders can awake from the daydreams and see the world as it is.

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"Illuminating . . . incisive." The New York Times
"A lively and entertaining if occasionally horrifying read. . . . Like a master archaeologist who can see through the shards and stones of a dig to reconstruct the culture of the city below, Kaplan lays out all the failures, omissions, and delusions of Bush administration officials. The result is an account of the pathologies . . . of Washington itself . . . a caution about the limits of purely military power and the dangers of seeing the world as a morality play."
Washington Post Book World
"Excellent and devastating. . . . Go, please, and buy Kaplan′s book. His great work deserves attention and reward."
Joe Klein, Time
"The inside history of our time, told with precision and confidence, by an author who knows where the secrets are kept."
Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco
"For me, this book was full of revelations." James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic
The disasters of American foreign policy these last eight years are well known. Why they happened continues to puzzle many. How to repair the damage is the biggest challenge the next president will face. In Daydream Believers, celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan "one of our most incisive thinkers about strategic issues," according to Walter Isaacson combines in–depth reporting and razor–sharp analysis to explain just how America got so far off track. Kaplan traces the origins of these catastrophic ideas, how they developed from as far back as fifty years ago, and how our next leaders can awake from the daydreams and see the world as it is.

Notă biografică

Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column in Slate, and contributes frequently to the New York Times. The author of the classic book The Wizards of Armageddon, he has also written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications. A former Boston Globe newspaper reporter based in Washington and Moscow, he co–won a Pulitzer Prize for a special Sunday supplement on the nuclear arms race. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.

Recenzii

"...Kaplan creates a well–rounded and in–depth explanation and expose of the forces tugging at the President′s attention...excellently written...Recommended." (Civilian–Reader2.Blogspot.com, January 11th 2009)

Cuprins

Introduction. 1 The Mirage of Instant Victory.
2 The Fog of Moral Clarity.
3 Chasing Silver Bullets.
4 Breaking the World Anew.
5 The Dreams Dissolve into Nightmares.
6 Waking Up to Reality.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.