Daydream Believers How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Name: Daydream Believers How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
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ISBN: 9780470121184

ISBN-10: 0470121181

ISBN-13: 9780470121184

Edition: 2008

Authors: Fred Kaplan

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One of Slate's most celebrated columnists reveals the political daydreams that have created our foreign policy nightmare Fred Kaplan combines high-level reporting with razor-sharp analysis to explain, once and for all, how President Bush got so far off track on foreign policy-and why much of the nation followed him. Kaplan convincingly argues that the disasters unleashed by Bush and other "Daydream Believers" stemmed not from mere incompetence but from two grave misconceptions: that the way the world works changed after 9/11, when it didn't; and that America emerged from its Cold War victory stronger than before, when in fact it was weaker. Misreading the nature of world politics and the…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 1/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.47" wide x 9.17" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Fred Kaplan teaches at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the editor of The Essential Gore Vidal and the author of the biographies Henry James, Dickens, and Thomas Carlyle, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Kaplan lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Introduction



The Mirage of Instant Victory



The Fog of Moral Clarity



Chasing Silver Bullets



Breaking the World Anew



The Dreams Dissolve into Nightmares



Waking Up to Reality


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index