On the 200th anniversary of George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address, one of the most influential but misunderstood expressions of American political thought, this book places the Address in the full context of American history and explains its enduring relevance for the next century.
On the 200th anniversary of George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address, one of the most influential but misunderstood expressions of American political...
Lawrence Freedman One of the major bonuses of the collapse of communism in Europe is that it may never again be necessary to enter into a sterile debate about whether it is better to be "red" or "dead." This appeared as the ultimate question in the great nuclear debate of the early 1980s. When put so starkly the answer appeared obvious better to live and struggle in a totalitarian system than to destroy totalitarian and democratic systems alike. There were a number of points to be made against this. Communist regimes had demonstrated the possibility of being both red and dead while the West...
Lawrence Freedman One of the major bonuses of the collapse of communism in Europe is that it may never again be necessary to enter into a sterile deba...
