Donald Rumsfeld Books & Reviews

Patriot Games

The Tom Clancys of Turkey have a clear and present bias.

Iran's Atomic Journey

Al J. Venter traces the history of the Iranian nuclear project.

FDR's Legacy

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great president.  Is Conrad Black a great biographer?

Revolutionary Nepotism

Why "keeping it in the family" remains popular under dictatorships--and democracies.

A People of Extraordinary Contradictions

A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

Power Steering

Two optimistic portrayals of the international future--by political scientists Joseph Nye and Michael Mandelbaum--go under a historian's scalpel.

Fighting Men

Eliot Cohen's look at the greatest democratic statesman of recent centuries affirms Clemenceau's quip that war is too important to be left to the generals--even American generals.

The Four Schoolmasters

Walter Russell Mead's new book deploys the ideas and heirs of Hamilton, Wilson, Jefferson and Jackson to illuminate the future of U.S. foreign policy.

Ukraine, Unexpected

Ukraine's political demagogues are squandering its benign strategic circumstances. They are doing neither well nor good for their unexpected country.

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May 26, 2012