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A History of American Hubris
HarperCollins
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
496 pages
ISBN: 0061456462
EAN: 9780061456466
Kindle: B003H3IOIM
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Non-Fiction
Peter Beinart's provocative account of hubris in the
American century describes Washington on the eve of three
wars: World War I, Vietnam, and Iraq—three moments when
American leaders decided they could remake the world in
their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that
the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a
president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each
time, a war conceived in arrogance brought tragedy. But each catastrophe also imparted wisdom to a new
generation of thinkers. These leaders learned to reconcile
the American belief that anything is possible with the
realities of a world that will never fully conform to this
country's will—and in their struggles lie the seeds of
American renewal today.
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