Reconstructing Harry

November 13, 2006 Topic: Society

Reconstructing Harry

The War on Terror has spurred an entire industry of historical analogy, some of it purely rhetorical, but much of it central to formulating a strategy to defeat the jihadi threat to America and the world.




[1] Richard Holbrooke, "Authentically Liberal", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 4 (July/August 2006), pp. 172.

[2] See John Lewis Gaddis, "Was the Truman Doctrine a Real Turning Point?" Foreign Affairs, Vol. 52, No. 2 (January 1974), pp. 387.

[3] Gaddis, The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 102.

[4] William Stueck, The Korean War: An International History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), pp. 61.

[5] Peter Beinart, The Good Fight: Why Liberals-and Only Liberals-Can Win the War on Terror and MakeAmericaGreat Again (New York: Harper Collins, 2006), pp. 16.

[6] Ibid., pp. 196.