Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the present day.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 02/01/2008
ISBN: 9780470121184
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.47w x 0.98d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/12/2007 pg. 46
Commonweal 09/12/2008 pg. 32
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 186