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War in a Time of Peace
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post Cold War America.
Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global events. He provides fascinating portraits of those in power—Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Kissinger, James Baker, Dick Cheney, Madeleine Albright, and others—to reveal a stunning view of modern political America.
Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and those who did not, have shaped America's role in global events. He provides fascinating portraits of those in power—Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Kissinger, James Baker, Dick Cheney, Madeleine Albright, and others—to reveal a stunning view of modern political America.
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Christopher Cook
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“I generally love Halberstam. But this book is kind of an odd slice of a very specific time. The jacket summary presents it as a comprehensive review of how America’s post Cold War foreign policy developed. It’s not really that. It is a more comprehensive summary of the Balkan conflicts in the former Yugoslavia with very brief forays into Kuwait, Somalia, Haiti, etc. It felt like the book tried to do too much and too little at the same time. If it wanted to offer a comprehensive look into foreign policy during this era, it feels too short and cursory. But as a summary of the Balkan conflicts, it also felt out of place because it went down endless rabbit holes without diving in-depth into a true history of the region and conflict. In other words the level of detail felt odd for this kind of book, especially given the short treatment of other conflicts, but was too little to stand alone as an independent construction of the various Balkan wars. Not his best work.”
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“Take a shot every time someone’s described as a hawk”
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About David Halberstam
David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties, have all been national bestsellers. Thirty-eight years after Mr. Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam, War in a Time of Peace was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in April 2007.
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