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Title: War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals by David Halberstam ISBN: 0-7432-2323-3 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (71 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An almost invisible foreign policy
Comment: Halberstam expertly chronicles American foreign policy after the fall of the Soviet Union. He starts with the end of the cold war under Bush senior, when the cold war ended, America no longer wanted to worry about foreign policy. Unfortunately President Bush did not realize this. Bush and his people ran his election campaign poorly and lost to Clinton.
Clinton believed that he could ignore foreign policy. He had no interest in it and he ended up with the wrong though very capable people, in the wrong places. Clinton did not specify goals or methods. He did not give any direction to his subordinates until the new administration realized that foreign policy could effect the all important image of the administration.
Halberstam explores in depth what happened when some people wanted to intervene against Serbia and the President did not want to. He details the decisions and relations between the people who made the decisions. He also describes the people and their background, explaining why the people made the decisions they did. Halberstam also spends some time discussing the disaster in Somalia and the events in Haiti.
Halberstam's book is a veritable who's who of Clinton's administration. He describes the strengths and faults of many people, some barely known in Bush administration as well as Clinton's , without favoritism to either party. Halberstam lauds Republicans such as Colin Powell as well as Democrats such as Bentsen. Halberstam's descriptions of the individuals does get a bit tedious at times, but it always is informative.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Strange World of Foreign Policy and Politics
Comment: David Halberstam's War in a Time of Peace is a massive look at American foregin policy in the 1990s, through the presidencies of Bush and Clinton. Bosnia and Kosovo are the centerpieces but the book also touches meaningfully on Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti. The thumbnail biographical portraits of all the leading American figures is a great joy and asset of this book. Foreign policy can be a confusing issue, not least of all because of its lack of intelligible coverage in the media or on campaign trails. Halberstam makes all these complex issues and myriad personalities shine through clearly. His critiques of the media are particularly important and compelling and this book is a refreshing antidote to the sort of journalism television has thrust to the fore. This is a valuable book but, most of all, it is a enjoyable and fascinating read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Review of American Foreign Policy in the 90s
Comment: Every American should read this book to understand the agonizing complexities that face the President of the United States, no matter who holds the office. Halberstam, without taking sides, leads us from Bush Sr. to the end of the Clinton presidency brilliantly, painting perceptive and memorable portraits of not only the events, the debates that went into the big decisions, but also of the cast of 20+ characters that made up the key personnel in these administrations. An irreplacable book.
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Title: The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam ISBN: 0449908704 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 26 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat by Wesley K. Clark ISBN: 1586481398 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Bush at War by Bob Woodward ISBN: 0743244613 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 by Michael Beschloss ISBN: B0000CAR62 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: To End a War by RICHARD HOLBROOKE ISBN: 0375753605 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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