In a bipolar world, the president's power to begin a war was balanced by the nuclear deterrent. But in the glasnost era, what restrains his trigger finger? In Smith's opinion, nothing at all. In a textual analysis of who did what to whom and when, George Bush's War shows a president using diplomatic channels and the media in pursuit of a war that need not have been fought.
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In a bipolar world, the president's power to begin a war was balanced by the nuclear deterrent. But in the glasnost era, what restrains his trigger finger? In Smith's opinion, nothing at all. In a textual analysis of who did what to whom and when, George Bush's War shows a president using diplomatic channels and the media in pursuit of a war that need not have been fought.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Not ex-lib. Hardcover in burnt-orange/brown jacket, 8vo. vi + 325ppp. Index, bibliography, endnotes. Appendix with UN and Congressional resolutions. Fine/Fine. Touches of mild foxing to page edges; shallow 1/2" crease to tip of upper corner rear flap. Book and jacket are otherwise as new: clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Very good, very good. 325, notes, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped. The book's conclusion comes as a clear warning: the triumph in the Persian Gulf War has obscured the real dangers of arbitrary executive power. Future foreign wars may not end so gloriously. This text deftly illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of the president's control of foreign policy. In August 1990, George Bush intervened in the Persian Gulf to defeat aggression, and pummeled Iraq into submission.
