Second Chance, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Second Chance, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Second Chance
Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/15/2007

Synopsis

America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the cold war with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America's future by the "suicidal statecraft" of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.

About Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski served as national security adviser to President Carter from 1977 to 1981. He is currently a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of a number of books, including The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives and, most recently, The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish

First published in 2006, the title ‘Second Chance’ refers to the possibility that the United States would be able to recognize and seize its historical moment as the world’s only superpower to do the moral and necessary thing: to lead the world towards greater amity, less divisional politics and sev......more

Goodreads review by Jon

Maybe I missed the point of this book. It was a hard read with too much detail. Yeah, makes me sound dumb. Overall, it came off to me as a book that says the neo-con idea of the New World Order was a grand idea, we just messed it up over the last three presidents. Or at least, each tried to do somet......more

Goodreads review by Andy

[Review originally written July 2009] Second Chance features the pictures of the book's 3 main actors chosen to reflect the point-of-view expressed by the author. Bush I (looking sternly to the left), while skilled and in control of an unusual number of world crises, led by looking in the rearview mi......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

This book could be cheekily summed up as former Carter National Security Advisor and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski giving letter grades to three post-Cold War presidents: Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II. I'll go ahead and spoil the result for you: Bush I scores highest, not much bad to say, f......more

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