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Twilight of the American Century
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Twilight of the American Century [electronic resource] / Andrew J. Bacevich.
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0268104875
9780268104870
0268104859
0268104867
9780268104856
9780268104863
Published
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (ix, 492 pages )
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Includes index.
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Summary
"Andrew Bacevich is among our most important public intellectuals in politics, foreign policy, international relations, and security. He writes regularly for The Wilson Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times. This book is a curated edition of his numerous writings on American politics and war after 9/11. This volume will reflect the entirety of the American experience post-9/11, politically, culturally, and spiritually"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 Political Science and Policy Studies
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Online version: Bacevich, Andrew J., author. Twilight of the American century Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018]
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Books / Online
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English
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September 09, 2019
Contents
A letter to Paul Wolfowitz: occasioned by the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War
David Brooks: angst in the church of America the redeemer
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the decline of liberalism
George Kennan: Kennan kvetches
Tom Clancy: military man
Robert Kagan: the duplicity of the ideologues
Boykinism: Joe McCarthy would understand
Henry Luce: the elusive American century
Donald Rumsfeld: known and unknown
Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter: tailors to the emperor
Fault lines: inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon
Tommy Franks: a modern major general
Selling our souls: of idolatry and iPhone
Christopher Lasch: family man
Randolph Bourne: the man in the black cape
William Appleman Williams: tragedy renewed
Reinhold Niebuhr: illusions of managing history
Saving "America first"
Kissing the specious present goodbye
The age of great expectations
American imperium
History that makes us stupid
Always and everywhere
The ugly American telegram
The revisionist imperative
The end of (military) history?
Twilight of the republic?
What happened at Bud Dajo
The folly of Albion
World War IV
Save us from Washington's visionaries
A war of ambition
Naming our nameless war
How we became Israel
Breaking Washington's rules
Why read Clausewitz when shock and awe can make a clean sweep of things?
Living room war
Bush's grand strategy
New Rome, new Jerusalem
Permanent war for permanent peace (November 2001)
Slouching toward Mar-A-Lago
Not the "age of Trump"
The failure of American liberalism
An ode to Ike and Adlai
War and culture, American style
Under God
Thoughts on a graduation weekend
One percent republic
Counterculture conservatism
Ballpark liturgy
The great divide.
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