American Empire Project: The Limits of Power : The End of American Exceptionalism (Paperback)

from jensenmk82

Bacevich's book, which is dedicated to his soldier son killed in Iraq, argues that the U.S. is no longer a true republic, and that it is now governed by an "imperial presidency" and is "a de facto one-party state" in which a Congress marked by pervasive "corruption" is ruled by "an Incumbents' Pa...

from Illiniguy71

This is perhaps the most important and most perceptive book I have ever read. It gives a brief analysis of American security policy since 1947 and why it went so badly wrong under George W. Bush. The book was written before the present economic collapse, but that collapse is entirely in keeping w...

from jensenmk82

Bacevich's book, which is dedicated to his soldier son killed in Iraq, argues that the U.S. is no longer a true republic, and that it is now governed by an "imperial presidency" and is "a de facto one-party state" in which a Congress marked by pervasive "corruption" is ruled by "an Incumbents' Pa...

from ABVR

The Limits of Power is Andrew Bacevich's (justly) acclaimed The New American Militarism distilled, streamlined, and rebalanced. It is a fiercer, angrier book than its predecessor-one that spends proportionally less time outlining the problem and more calling on the nation and its leaders to wake ...

from jwcooper3

Every American needs to read this book, and read it soon. Bacevich, a retired Army Colonel and now History Prof in Boston, puts forth the case that we, the American people, have allowed our present economic, military and political status to come about through our own non-involvement and obsession...