War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. (Books in review: chronicling the last war).(Review)

War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals By David Halberstam. Scribners, 543 pages, $28.00

INSIDE DAVID HALBERSTAM'S MAMMOTH opus is a good little book struggling to escape its author's fatal ambition. The justly celebrated reporter apparently believes it possible to tell the story of U.S. foreign and military policy over a period of more than a decade, in all its political, personal, psychological, and strategic context, in the space of one book--albeit one of doorstop heft. It is not. And in undertaking this act of authorial hubris, Halberstam has unwittingly ...

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