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American journalist and commentator; former editor of The New Republic; professor at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and editor-at-large of Jewish Currents; writes the newsletter The Beinart Notebook.
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The Fight is for DemocracyBook Edited by George Packer
The Fight is for Democracy really captures a spirit that existed in the wake of 9/11 amongst the species known as liberal hawks.
Five Books interview: the best books on Post-9/11 America
2011-09-08·fivebooks.com ↗
Dangerous NationBook Robert Kagan
Dangerous Nation is Kagan’s history of American foreign policy in the 19th century – it’s the first half of a two-part history of American foreign policy that he is writing.
Five Books interview: the best books on Post-9/11 America
2011-09-08·fivebooks.com ↗
Rise of the VulcansBook James Mann
Rise of the Vulcans does a good job of showing that the trajectory for many of the figures who influenced Bush foreign policy was really an arc – in some ways similar to the arc that I try to trace in The Icarus Syndrome – that begins in the 1970s, at a time when American power is inhibited and the presidency is weak.
Five Books interview: the best books on Post-9/11 America
2011-09-08·fivebooks.com ↗
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