Icarus Syndrome, The: A History of American Hubris - Tapa blanda

"A highly readable and useful hundred-year account of American ventures abroad that can serve as a path to understanding the past failures and uncovering why policy renewal is now proving so elusive. . . . Beinart usefully grapples with the practical impediments to making good policy."--Leslie H. Gelb, The New York Times Book Review

"Impressive. . . . Mr Beinart has produced an original and ambitious study."--The Economist

"The Icarus Syndrome is a readable survey of 'America in the world' over the past hundred years. Nothing is more chilling than Beinart's catalog of the continuous, wrong-headed invocation of 'Munich' and 'appeasement.'"--Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New York Review of Books

"A brilliant new book about the pendulum swings of U.S. foreign policy between excessive ambition and excessive retrenchment."--The Los Angeles Times

"With this book Beinart vindicates his standing as one of the major thinkers of his generation on the United States' world role."--Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs

"Beinart possesses the analytical skills of a seasoned historian. . . . He's a smart, reasoned political analyst who doesn't resort to hyperbole and hysteria when making a point. . . The result is a book that's generally enlightening."--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Informative and engaging. . . . Beinart's book tackles a great deal of material in an approachable, yet never simplistic, way. . . . The Icarus Syndrome is a valuable addition to the public debate about the United States's ever evolving role in the world."--The Boston Globe

"Why do we succomb to hubris? Peter Beinart has written a highly intelligent and wonderfully readable book that answers the question by looking at a century of American foreign policy. As with everything Beinart writes, it is lucid, thoughtful and strikingly honest."--Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World

"Energetically researched and entertainingly written, Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is both a fascinating intellectual history and an important coming-of-age parable about his generation's hard-learned lesson in the limits of American power."--Jane Mayer, author of The Dark Side

"Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century--a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. Beinart's book is not only timely; it is indispensible."--Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars