The Good Fight - Why Liberals and Only Liberals Can Win the War on Terror and Make

In this passionate, provocative book, Peter Beinart offers a bold new vision and sounds the call for liberals to revive the spirit that once swept America and inspired the world.

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"The Good Fight is a book filled with apt insights and common sense ... Recommended for liberals and conservatives." - Madeleine Albright
"Beinart has given Democrats a blueprint for ... taking back the White House." - Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell
"Peter Beinart takes us on a vigorous and entertaining search for a usable past ... His reasoning must be heard." - Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas
"Beinart, in his deftly argued new book, . . . helpfully grounds the current debate in its oft-forgotten history." - The Boston Globe
"[A]n invigorating pep talk for a dispirited team that has lost the ability to sway voters the way it used to, especially on vital issues of foreign policy. . . . A bracing read, a good two-fisted polemic intended to stiffen the Democratic spine." - William Grimes, The New York Times
"An intellectual archeologist, Beinart excavates that vanished intellectual tradition and sends it into battle in his new book." - The Washington Post
"A thoughtful, provocative, well-written book." - Washington Monthly
"Beinart's mini-history provides some sharp and surprising observations. . . . His candid admission that he failed to live up to his own principles during the rush to war evinces a quality of self-reflection sorely lacking in American public life." - Salon
"This is a brilliant and provocative book in a great tradition." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"Insightful, provocative." - Thomas Friedman, The New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Peter Beinart
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2008
• EAN: 9780060841607
• ISBN: 978-0-06-084160-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY: WORLD, POLITICAL SCIENCE: World / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE: Women in Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE: History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE: International Relations / General, LAW: Forensic Science, HISTORY: Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General