This collection of essays constitutes a how-to manual for people who sense something deeply wrong with the current bipartisan consensus on American power, but can’t quite articulate what it is. Bacevich, a Boston University professor and frequent Commonweal contributor, calls this book “a dissenter’s guide to the American Century,” and that’s quite apt. One of the lea (...)
May 18, 2012
Books
Old Glory
The Short American CenturyA PostmortemEdited by Andrew BacevichHarvard University Press, $25.95, 296 pp.
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