Foreign policy Books & Reviews

Through the Garbage Can, Darkly, Review of David Williams's Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science

Eric Jones | Sep 01, 1996
This is a work of criticism ranging over the more fashionable social sciences and humanities, assessing and mostly rejecting them as unsuitable for elucidating the Japanese political system and berating their exponents for ignoring that system in

The Cowboy Patriot

Richard Grenier | Sep 01, 1996
In retrospect, the film Green Berets serves rather neatly, in conjunction with reviews in the New York Times and other high-toned publications, to illustrate the period's sharp split between elite and mass opinion on the Vietnam War.

Road Hogs, Review of Joshua Muravchik's The Imperative of American Leadership

Adam Garfinkle | Jun 01, 1996
Two of the books reviewed here describe how Joshua Muravchik and the late Eric Nordlinger read the post-Soviet map and would have us travel upon it. Both recommend sharp turns at high speeds. The third contains the counsel of Peter Rodman, a man l

The Man Who Liked Reporters

Paul Gigot | Mar 01, 1996
Marlin Fitzwater was the most effective and well-liked press secretary since John F. Kennedy's Pierre Salinger. Fitzwater spent six years working for two presidents of markedly different public styles, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, and lived to t

Best of Buddies; Review of Anatoly Dobrynin's In Confidence

Stephen Sestanovich | Dec 01, 1995
Washington has lived by leaks and rumors for a very long time, but until the collapse of communism there was one person in town with whom it was always safe to let your hair down.

Vietnam Made Him; Review of Colin Powell's My American Journey

Henry S. Rowen | Dec 01, 1995
As members of the Washington elite go, Colin Powell is an exceptionally attractive person.

Reckless War-Making; Review of Sergei N. Goncharov et al.'s Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War

David Rees | Dec 01, 1995
Reckless War-Making; Review of Sergei N.

Bernadotte and Shamir

Barbara Amiel | Jun 01, 1995
Marton's qualifications to write a book about the Middle East are slightly higher than Bernadotte's were to make peace there, but in the end it comes to the same: two boy scouts setting up pup-tents in minefields.

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