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How did a man once mocked for knowing little about the world come to be a foreign policy revolutionary? In America Unbound, Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay dismiss claims that neoconservatives have captured the heart and mind of George W. Bush, showing how the president has been a strong, decisive leader, and no one’s puppet. But they also caution that the Bush revolution comes with serious risks—and, at some point, we may find that America’s friends and allies will refuse to follow his lead, leaving us unable to achieve our goals.
“A splendidly illuminating book on the ‘Bush Revolution’ and the doctrine of unilateral intervention and pre-emptive war.” —The New York Times
"The commentary is judicious, the language sober, and, given that both Daalder and Lindsay served in the Clinton White House and that Daalder was recently an adviser to Howard Dean, the measured tone invests the book with that much more credibility." --The Washington Post
"Daalder and Lindsay offer a provocative and original thesis--and also a caution to those who have underestimated George W. Bush's decisive and historic impact on the course of American foreign policy." --Robert Kagan, author of Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
"America Unbound is refreshingly original and it makes the case for President Bush as the master of his own unilateralist revolution. Future examinations of Bush foreign policy will be measured against this authoriative book." --Daniel Schorr, National Public Radio
"While all may not share their high estimation of Bush's intelligence, for those seeking to understand the Bush foreign policy and not merely to denounce it, this informative book will be highly useful. Although they make a spirited argument, they are unlikely to persuade radical critics who see the current policy not as an aberration of a single team or individual but as a heavy-handed manifestation of a longstanding imperial project. For them the problem is not Bush but the structure of American capitalism and the militarism that produces, and indeed requires, such policies." --Ronald Steel, The Nation
"The strength of the book's contribution lies not in the originality of its thesis but in its clarity and brevity, its mastery of detail, and its analysis of the essential continuity of the administration's policy before and after September 11, 2001. It is doubtful that another book will come along soon that covers all the important points of the administration's foreign policy with more clarity and evenhandedness." --Foreign Affairs
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