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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Bacevich, Andrew
- ISBN
- 9781250175083
- Book Title
- Age of Illusions : How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
- Publisher
- Holt & Company, Henry
- Item Length
- 8.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, History
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, History & Theory, United States / 21st Century, American Government / General
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1250175089
ISBN-13
9781250175083
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038807394
Product Key Features
Book Title
Age of Illusions : How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, History & Theory, United States / 21st Century, American Government / General
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-007089
Reviews
"Offers tantalizing insights into how [America's Cold War] victory soured. . . . Most interesting." -- The Economist "Those unfamiliar with Bacevich's work will be thrilled to encounter a first-rate thinker whose trenchant, objective, well-written analyses defy glib labeling . . . Highly recommended." -- CHOICE "This engrossing recounting of the irresponsibility of America's ruling class--aided and abetted by a citizenry grown complacent--clarifies the absurdities of the ascent of Trump. Like a Greek tragedian of old, Bacevich insistently discloses the discomfiting truth, showing how America's self-congratulatory past has led to our wrenching present. Instead of illusions, he offers hope for a future free of self-deception, and points the way toward a newly responsible American civic life."-- Patrick J. Deneen , author of Why Liberalism Failed "In The Age of Illusions , Andrew Bacevich offers a thoughtful, well-informed, and deeply humane critique of the self-absorbed grandiosity that dominates American foreign policy. He is one of a handful of sane voices contributing to the national conversation, and this is an indispensable book for our troubled times."-- Jackson Lears , author of Rebirth of a Nation "This astute analysis of how the United States squandered its 'cold war victory' shows how the elites wasted the peace dividend with policies favoring global neoliberalism, military hegemony, and radical individualism, paralyzing Washington and delivering the oval office to a patently incompetent candidate."-- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels , Editor, Commonweal (retired) "America's most important challenges preceded Trump and will outlast him, Andrew Bacevich argues in this searing and powerful account of U.S. politics. This book will anger many readers, but it should also ignite overdue debate about permanent war enabled by public apathy, and economic inequality produced by globalized neoliberalism."-- Mary Dudziak , author of War Time "As clear-headed as always, as honest as usual, Andrew Bacevich gives us a brilliant account of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War brought on not the end of history but an explosion of American hubris and an era of excess that blinded our political class to reality, stunted citizenship, undermined governance, and ignited angry disenchantment among great swaths of the public, enabling a real-life Captain Queeg to seize the helm, shouting 'Full Steam Ahead' toward monumental disaster. Unless, says Bacevich in his compelling conclusion, we come to our senses."-- Bill Moyers, Praise for The Age of Illusions "Those unfamiliar with Bacevich's work will be thrilled to encounter a first-rate thinker whose trenchant, objective, well-written analyses defy glib labeling . . . Highly recommended." -- CHOICE "This engrossing recounting of the irresponsibility of America's ruling class--aided and abetted by a citizenry grown complacent--clarifies the absurdities of the ascent of Trump. Like a Greek tragedian of old, Bacevich insistently discloses the discomfiting truth, showing how America's self-congratulatory past has led to our wrenching present. Instead of illusions, he offers hope for a future free of self-deception, and points the way toward a newly responsible American civic life."-- Patrick J. Deneen , author of Why Liberalism Failed "In The Age of Illusions , Andrew Bacevich offers a thoughtful, well-informed, and deeply humane critique of the self-absorbed grandiosity that dominates American foreign policy. He is one of a handful of sane voices contributing to the national conversation, and this is an indispensable book for our troubled times."-- Jackson Lears , author of Rebirth of a Nation "This astute analysis of how the United States squandered its 'cold war victory' shows how the elites wasted the peace dividend with policies favoring global neoliberalism, military hegemony, and radical individualism, paralyzing Washington and delivering the oval office to a patently incompetent candidate."-- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels , Editor, Commonweal (retired) "America's most important challenges preceded Trump and will outlast him, Andrew Bacevich argues in this searing and powerful account of U.S. politics. This book will anger many readers, but it should also ignite overdue debate about permanent war enabled by public apathy, and economic inequality produced by globalized neoliberalism."-- Mary Dudziak , author of War Time "As clear-headed as always, as honest as usual, Andrew Bacevich gives us a brilliant account of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War brought on not the end of history but an explosion of American hubris and an era of excess that blinded our political class to reality, stunted citizenship, undermined governance, and ignited angry disenchantment among great swaths of the public, enabling a real-life Captain Queeg to seize the helm, shouting 'Full Steam Ahead' toward monumental disaster. Unless, says Bacevich in his compelling conclusion, we come to our senses."-- Bill Moyers, "Offers tantalizing insights into how America's Cold War victory soured. . . . Most interesting." -- The Economist "Those unfamiliar with Bacevich's work will be thrilled to encounter a first-rate thinker whose trenchant, objective, well-written analyses defy glib labeling . . . Highly recommended." -- CHOICE "This engrossing recounting of the irresponsibility of America's ruling class--aided and abetted by a citizenry grown complacent--clarifies the absurdities of the ascent of Trump. Like a Greek tragedian of old, Bacevich insistently discloses the discomfiting truth, showing how America's self-congratulatory past has led to our wrenching present. Instead of illusions, he offers hope for a future free of self-deception, and points the way toward a newly responsible American civic life."-- Patrick J. Deneen , author of Why Liberalism Failed "In The Age of Illusions , Andrew Bacevich offers a thoughtful, well-informed, and deeply humane critique of the self-absorbed grandiosity that dominates American foreign policy. He is one of a handful of sane voices contributing to the national conversation, and this is an indispensable book for our troubled times."-- Jackson Lears , author of Rebirth of a Nation "This astute analysis of how the United States squandered its 'cold war victory' shows how the elites wasted the peace dividend with policies favoring global neoliberalism, military hegemony, and radical individualism, paralyzing Washington and delivering the oval office to a patently incompetent candidate."-- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels , Editor, Commonweal (retired) "America's most important challenges preceded Trump and will outlast him, Andrew Bacevich argues in this searing and powerful account of U.S. politics. This book will anger many readers, but it should also ignite overdue debate about permanent war enabled by public apathy, and economic inequality produced by globalized neoliberalism."-- Mary Dudziak , author of War Time "As clear-headed as always, as honest as usual, Andrew Bacevich gives us a brilliant account of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War brought on not the end of history but an explosion of American hubris and an era of excess that blinded our political class to reality, stunted citizenship, undermined governance, and ignited angry disenchantment among great swaths of the public, enabling a real-life Captain Queeg to seize the helm, shouting 'Full Steam Ahead' toward monumental disaster. Unless, says Bacevich in his compelling conclusion, we come to our senses."-- Bill Moyers, Advance Praise for The Age of Illusions "This engrossing recounting of the irresponsibility of America's ruling class--aided and abetted by a citizenry grown complacent--clarifies the absurdities of the ascent of Trump. Like a Greek tragedian of old, Bacevich insistently discloses the discomfiting truth, showing how America's self-congratulatory past has led to our wrenching present. Instead of illusions, he offers hope for a future free of self-deception, and points the way toward a newly responsible American civic life."-- Patrick J. Deneen , author of Why Liberalism Failed "In The Age of Illusions , Andrew Bacevich offers a thoughtful, well-informed, and deeply humane critique of the self-absorbed grandiosity that dominates American foreign policy. He is one of a handful of sane voices contributing to the national conversation, and this is an indispensable book for our troubled times."-- Jackson Lears , author of Rebirth of a Nation "This astute analysis of how the United States squandered its 'cold war victory' shows how the elites wasted the peace dividend with policies favoring global neoliberalism, military hegemony, and radical individualism, paralyzing Washington and delivering the oval office to a patently incompetent candidate."-- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels , Editor, Commonweal (retired) "America's most important challenges preceded Trump and will outlast him, Andrew Bacevich argues in this searing and powerful account of U.S. politics. This book will anger many readers, but it should also ignite overdue debate about permanent war enabled by public apathy, and economic inequality produced by globalized neoliberalism."-- Mary Dudziak , author of War Time "As clear-headed as always, as honest as usual, Andrew Bacevich gives us a brilliant account of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War brought on not the end of history but an explosion of American hubris and an era of excess that blinded our political class to reality, stunted citizenship, undermined governance, and ignited angry disenchantment among great swaths of the public, enabling a real-life Captain Queeg to seize the helm, shouting 'Full Steam Ahead' toward monumental disaster. Unless, says Bacevich in his compelling conclusion, we come to our senses."-- Bill Moyers
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
352.2350973
Table Of Content
Introduction 1. Al, Fred, and Homer's America--and Mine 2. The End of History! 3. Kicking 41 to the Curb 4. Glimpsing the Emerald City 5. Bedfellows 6. State of the Union 7. Plebiscite 8. Attending to Rabbit's Question Notes Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a world-historical struggle. Our side had won, a verdict that was both decisive and irreversible. For the world's "indispensable nation," its "sole superpower," the future looked very bright. History, having brought the United States to the very summit of power and prestige, had validated American-style liberal democratic capitalism as universally applicable. In the decades to come, Americans would put that claim to the test. They would embrace the promise of globalization as a source of unprecedented wealth while embarking on wide-ranging military campaigns to suppress disorder and enforce American values abroad, confident in the ability of U.S. forces to defeat any foe. Meanwhile, they placed all their bets on the White House to deliver on the promise of their Cold War triumph: unequaled prosperity, lasting peace, and absolute freedom. In The Age of Illusions , bestselling author Andrew Bacevich takes us from that moment of seemingly ultimate victory to the age of Trump, telling an epic tale of folly and delusion. Writing with his usual eloquence and vast knowledge, he explains how, within a quarter of a century, the United States ended up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population, as well, of course, as the strangest president in American history., When the fall of the Berlin Wall ended the Cold War, the American political establishment felt it had prevailed in a cosmic struggle of world-historical significance. Our side had won, the outcome both decisive and irreversible. For the world's "indispensable nation" and "sole superpower," the future looked very bright indeed. History itself had seemingly delivered the United States to the very summit of power and prestige, thereby validating American-style liberal democratic capitalism as the future of humankind. In the decades that followed, American leaders put that claim to the test. They embraced globalization as a putative source of unprecedented wealth, embarked on wide-ranging military campaigns to export American values, and redefined the very meaning of freedom. Meanwhile, they placed all their bets on the White House fulfilling the promise of their Cold War triumph: unequaled prosperity, lasting peace, and absolute freedom. In The Age of Illusions, bestselling author Andrew Bacevich takes us from that moment of seemingly ultimate victory to the age of Trump, recounting an epic tale of folly and delusion. Writing with his usual eloquence and vast knowledge, he explains how within a quarter of a century the United States ended up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population, as well as, of course, the strangest president in American history.
LC Classification Number
E839.5.B33 2019
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- r***r (7440)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseOnce Upon a Time Books Inc is an eBay seller newer to me. I was very pleased with this transaction. The books were packaged securely, shipped promptly and are just as described. They have a large inventory and their prices are reasonable. They also reduce orders of three books by twenty five percent. I will be back to shop more at Once Upon a Time Books Inc. Thank you.