Cover to Cover
Atlantic, The, May, 2006 by Benjamin Schwarz
CURRENT AFFAIRS Impostor by Bruce Bartlett (Doubleday) A prominent Reaganite denounces George W. Bush as a faux-conservative in the Nixon mold. America's Coming War With China by Ted Galen Carpenter (Palgrave Macmillan) A Cato Institute scholar envisions the outbreak of war between China and the United States (here projected for 2013), unless the latter can disentangle its interests from Taiwan's.
Fast Boat to China by Andrew Ross (Pantheon) A skeptical take on pro-China boosterism, gained through the same participant-observer techniques the author brought to his Celebration Chronicles, about Disney's Edenic planned community. The Battle for Peace by Tony Zinni and Tony Koltz (Palgrave Macmillan) A former centcom commander calls for more multilateralism and meaningful long-term planning in foreign policy. Among Empires by Charles S. Maier (Harvard) A historian weighs the current U.S. hegemony against that enjoyed by Rome, Britain, the Ottomans, and the Moghuls at the respective heights of their ...