false 1411673 20821 320004 0465002528 9780465002528 18 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173736067m/320004.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173736067s/320004.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320004.Second_Chance_Three_Presidents_and_the_Crisis_of_American_Superpower 3.56 97 America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America's future by the "suicidal statecraft" of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.

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