Textbook Discounter: Social Sciences: The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War

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The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
	Author: Andrew J. Bacevich Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Category: Book List Price: ~~$15.95~~ Buy New: $9.10 You Save: $6.85 (43%) New (40) Used (25) from $5.50 Rating: 64 reviews Sales Rank: 10289 Media: Paperback Pages: 288 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9 Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 ISBN: 0195311981 Dewey Decimal Number: 355.02130973 EAN: 9780195311983 ASIN: 0195311981 Publication Date: September 7, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description In this provocative book, Andrew Bacevich warns of a dangerous dual obsession that has taken hold of Americans, conservatives, and liberals alike. It is a marriage of militarism and utopian ideology--of unprecedented military might wed to a blind faith in the universality of American values. This mindset, the author warns, invites endless war and the ever-deepening militarization of U.S. policy. It promises not to perfect but to pervert American ideals and to accelerate the hollowing out of American democracy. As it alienates others, it will leave the United States increasingly isolated. It will end in bankruptcy, moral as well as economic, and in abject failure. With The New American Militarism, which has been updated with a new Afterword, Bacevich examines the origins and implications of this misguided enterprise. He shows how American militarism emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam War. Various groups in American society--soldiers, politicians on the make, intellectuals, strategists, Christian evangelicals, even purveyors of pop culture--came to see the revival of military power and the celebration of military values as the antidote to all the ills besetting the country as a consequence of Vietnam and the 1960s. The upshot, acutely evident in the aftermath of 9/11, has been a revival of vast ambitions and certainty, this time married to a pronounced affinity for the sword. Bacevich urges us to restore a sense of realism and a sense of proportion to U.S. policy. He proposes, in short, to bring American purposes and American methods--especially with regard to the role of the military--back into harmony with the nation's founding ideals.

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