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How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
Wiley
February 2008
On Sale: January 29, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0470121181
EAN: 9780470121184
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
America's power is in decline, its foreign policy adrift,
its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that
even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these
past eight years is well-known. Why it happened continues to
puzzle. In Daydream Believers, celebrated Slate columnist
Fred Kaplan combines in-depth reporting and razor-sharp
analysis to explain just how George W. Bush and his aides
got so far off track -- and why much of the nation followed. For eight years, Kaplan reminds us, the White House -- and
many of the nation's podiums and opinion pages -- rang out
with appealing but deluded claims: that we live in a time
like no other and that, therefore, the lessons of history no
longer apply; that new technology has transformed warfare;
that the world's peoples will be set free, if only America
topples their dictators; and that those who dispute such
promises do so for partisan reasons. They thought they were
visionaries, but they only had visions. And they believed in
their daydreams.
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