Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to impro…
American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizen…
Analyzes U.S. history during the Reagan era. Details the downward spiral of the country's optimism for the future.
This book examines the Reagan decade in which America fell from a dominant world power to a struggling debtor nation.
An argument that it was only on September 11, 2001, that the symbolic universe of the Cold War was finally destroyed and a new world order put into place.
This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence, convoluted reign, and introduces potential scenarios that may play out in the near term" After four decades of tyrannical, erratic-and pioneering-changes fue…
"This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence, convoluted reign, and introduces potential scenarios that may play out in the near term"--