In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, both conservatives and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology, of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. Thi[...]
Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, "The Irony of American History" is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal id[...]
Galison Desk Address Books are traditional customer favourites. The 4-ring binder with a cloth spine measures 6-1/2 x 7-3/8 x 1-3/8", has 20 tabbed dividers with images and interesting quotations. There are 166 removable 5 x 7" pages with prompts for name, address, phone, fax, and email.The Vintage [...]
Hailed as "brilliant" ("The Washington Post"), "Washington Rules" is Andrew J. Bacevich's bestselling challenge to the conventional wisdom that American security requires the United States (and US alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military oper[...]
In February 1941, Henry Luce announced the arrival of The American Century. But that century - extending from World War II to the recent economic collapse - has now ended, victim of strategic miscalculation, military misadventures, and economic decline. This book features American historians who pla[...]