Full name: Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Author: Fred Kaplan Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780470121184 0470121181

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. Similar books: State of Denial by Bob Woodward The Fall of the House of Bush by Craig Unger Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward Hubris by Michael Isikoff The War Within by Bob Woodward Rise of the Vulcans by James Mann Bush at War by Bob Woodward State of War by James Risen America Unbound by Ivo H. Daalder Rising Tide by John M. Barry Death of a Nation by Dinesh D'Souza Contrary Notions by Michael Parenti Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast Modern Times by Paul Johnson How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald Reconstruction by Eric Foner After America by Mark Steyn The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood