America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire - Tapa blanda

"An important contribution for those interested in the intense post 9/11 debate on US foreign policy." --David C. Jordan, University of Virginia "Claes Ryn paints a truly alarming portrait of the new Jacobinism that now constitutes a powerful ideological force among our nation's elites. . . . Ryn's splendid book is a warning of things to come if we fail to recognize the dangers." --George W. Carey, Georgetown University "There is much wisdom in Ryn's book, and the moral realism he calls for and explicates commands respect. . . . Ryn is onto deep truths about the nature of politics." --David C. Henderickson, World Policy Journal -America the Virtuous diagnosed our contemporary maladies in both foreign policy and domestic life. . . . We Americans pretend we're a peace-loving people and that our wars have all been foisted upon us. But the United States, as Ryn explains, is an Enlightened or Ideological Republic that has slipped its constitutional moorings, and become a Fighting Faith.- --Walter A. McDougall, Huminatas -Ryn (Catholic Univ.) does not like neoconservatives. He does not even like the term. Instead, he refers to the conservative intellectuals who have secured prominent positions in the media and in the Pentagon as the -new Jacobins.- Like the Jacobins of old, they possess a dangerous arrogance that will lead their nation to disaster... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.- --R. A. Strong, Choice -An important contribution for those interested in the intense post 9/11 debate on US foreign policy.- --David C. Jordan, University of Virginia -Claes Ryn paints a truly alarming portrait of the new Jacobinism that now constitutes a powerful ideological force among our nation's elites. . . . Ryn's splendid book is a warning of things to come if we fail to recognize the dangers.- --George W. Carey, Georgetown University -There is much wisdom in Ryn's book, and the moral realism he calls for and explicates commands respect. . . . Ryn is onto deep truths about the nature of politics.- --David C. Henderickson, World Policy Journal "America the Virtuous diagnosed our contemporary maladies in both foreign policy and domestic life. . . . We Americans pretend we're a peace-loving people and that our wars have all been foisted upon us. But the United States, as Ryn explains, is an Enlightened or Ideological Republic that has slipped its constitutional moorings, and become a Fighting Faith." --Walter A. McDougall, Huminatas "Ryn (Catholic Univ.) does not like neoconservatives. He does not even like the term. Instead, he refers to the conservative intellectuals who have secured prominent positions in the media and in the Pentagon as the "new Jacobins." Like the Jacobins of old, they possess a dangerous arrogance that will lead their nation to disaster... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." --R. A. Strong, Choice "An important contribution for those interested in the intense post 9/11 debate on US foreign policy." --David C. Jordan, University of Virginia "Claes Ryn paints a truly alarming portrait of the new Jacobinism that now constitutes a powerful ideological force among our nation's elites. . . . Ryn's splendid book is a warning of things to come if we fail to recognize the dangers." --George W. Carey, Georgetown University "There is much wisdom in Ryn's book, and the moral realism he calls for and explicates commands respect. . . . Ryn is onto deep truths about the nature of politics." --David C. Henderickson, World Policy Journal "Ryn (Catholic Univ.) does not like neoconservatives. He does not even like the term. Instead, he refers to the conservative intellectuals who have secured prominent positions in the media and in the Pentagon as the "new Jacobins." Like the Jacobins of old, they possess a dangerous arrogance that will lead their nation to disaster... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." --R. A. Strong, Choice "An important contribution for those interested in the intense post 9/11 debate on US foreign policy." --David C. Jordan, University of Virginia "Claes Ryn paints a truly alarming portrait of the new Jacobinism that now constitutes a powerful ideological force among our nation's elites. . . . Ryn's splendid book is a warning of things to come if we fail to recognize the dangers." --George W. Carey, Georgetown University "There is much wisdom in Ryn's book, and the moral realism he calls for and explicates commands respect. . . . Ryn is onto deep truths about the nature of politics." --David C. Henderickson, World Policy Journal "America the Virtuous diagnosed our contemporary maladies in both foreign policy and domestic life. . . . We Americans pretend we're a peace-loving people and that our wars have all been foisted upon us. But the United States, as Ryn explains, is an Enlightened or Ideological Republic that has slipped its constitutional moorings, and become a Fighting Faith." --Walter A. McDougall, Huminatas "America the Virtuous diagnosed our contemporary maladies in both foreign policy and domestic life... We Americans pretend we're a peace-loving people and that our wars have all been foisted upon us. But the United States, as Ryn explains, is an Enlightened or Ideological Republic that has slipped its constitutional moorings, and become a Fighting Faith." - Walter A. McDougall, Huminatas