"An excoriating call for change . . . Bacevich's arguments are well-informed and stoked by a sense of moral outrage. Readers will agree that U.S. foreign policy needs a massive rethink." -Publishers Weekly
Andrew Bacevich is the author of The Limits of Power, Washington Rules, and, most recently, The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and the American Conservative, among other publications. Having served in the army for twenty-three years, he is currently a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University and founder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington think tank dedicated to foreign policy. He lives in Walpole, Massachusetts.
Few critics [of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars] have been more
penetrating than Andrew Bacevich . . . One can only hope that
Bacevich is read and understood by a generation young enough to see
through and reject those dismal elites.
--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) A timely,
angry, deeply necessary book about the habits of mind that have
damaged America, and how to change them.
--Peter Beinart, author of The Crisis of Zionism
In a sane country, the estimable Andrew Bacevich would be Secretary
of a much-shrunken Defense Department. Deepened by his sense of
history, this up-to-the-minute book is his answer to the big
question: why is the most powerful nation on earth so ill-prepared
to deal with the world it faces?
--Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts The
proliferating crises of our moment have found their interpreter. In
this piercing account, Andrew Bacevich explains how distinctively
American attributes--from our national security state to our
original sin of racism to our very self-concept as the world
leader--have, in the 21st century, conspired to render the American
people vulnerable where they live. Bacevich points the way forward
in terms that Americans across party lines are likely to
appreciate. Will their leaders?
--Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth
of U.S. Global Supremacy After the Apocalypse is a welcome act
of heresy . . . that drives a central point home: America has
stumbled, badly, and will complete its precipitous fall unless
measures are taken to radically reform its failed and flawed
relationship with itself and the world . . . A must read for any
student or practitioner of American statecraft.
--Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer An
excoriating call for change . . . Bacevich's arguments are
well-informed and stoked by a sense of moral outrage. Readers will
agree that U.S. foreign policy needs a massive rethink.
--Publishers Weekly
With a reputation for knowledgeable, incisive, and provocative
readings of history, Bacevich delivers his latest addition to a
growing body of thought-provoking work . . . Broad in its scope yet
concise, this is an important nonconformist interpretation of
American history.
--Kirkus Reviews
Although Andrew Bacevich never exonerates average citizens for
their contribution to current problems, he excoriates elected
officials for a shortsightedness based on both non-reflection and
willful self-interest in dispensing blatant lies, failed solutions,
and soothing nostrums.
--CHOICE
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