Andrew Bacevich

The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994 By John Ehrman Yale University Press, 241 pages, $27.50 This slender volume delivers somewhat less than its imposing title promises. If it covers the ground assigned, it seldom probes beneath the surface. Useful as far . . . . Continue Reading »

The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism. by Eugene D. Genovese. Harvard University Press. 138 pp. $22.50 This is a compelling and provocative book. The work of a devout (though by his own admission chastened) leftist who is also one of this country’s . . . . Continue Reading »

The Age of Extremes:A History of the World, 1914-1991. By Eric Hobsbawm. Pantheon Books, 627 pages, $30 Eric Hobsbawm ranks among the most prolific and most influential British historians of the entire postwar era. He is also a person who, throughout his long career, has without apology identified . . . . Continue Reading »

When the definitive catalogue of twentieth-century horrors is assembled, the agonies endured by Bosnia in the 1990s are unlikely to rate many pages. It’s been that kind of century. Yet the ongoing debacle in Bosnia—more specifically, the utter ineffectiveness of U.S. efforts to end the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History Edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson LearsUniversity of Chicago Press, 292 pages, $42 Fables of Abundance:a cultural History of Advertising in America By Jackson LearsBasic Books, 492 pages, $30 New times rightly demand . . . . Continue Reading »

I “These Colors Don’t Run.” By the time the controversy over Vietnam had reached its height, that defiant slogan had become in its way emblematic of an era. Accompanied by a prosaic image of Old Glory, it appeared across the vast expanse of middle America: stuck to the bumper of family . . . . Continue Reading »

Does the Clinton Administration have a foreign policy worthy of the name? A recent blitz of so-called Major Foreign Policy Statements by senior Administration officials—culminating in an address to the UN General Assembly by the President himself—would have us believe so. Of the several . . . . Continue Reading »