Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam
chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in
post-Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts,
unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House,
the State Department, and the military, Halberstam shows how
the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War, and
those who did not, have shaped America's role in global
events. He provides fascinating portraits of those in power
-- Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Kissinger, James Baker, Dick
Cheney, Madeleine Albright, and others -- to reveal a
stunning view of modern political America.