The Good Fight: Terror and the Liberal Spirit
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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.
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart is an associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the senior political writer for The Daily Beast and a contributor to Time. Beinart is a former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Good Fight. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It took me a year to get to this book, but I read it and enjoyed it. It is an intellectual history of American foreign policy confronting totalitarianism since the beginnings of the Cold War. Beinart does a good job in examining the liberal cold-warriors such as the Kennedys and Johnson, and traces the split in the Democratic party over Vietnam, the emergence of the New Left, and the flight of cold warriors, such as Jeanne Kirkpatrick to the Republicans. The difference between the "new Democrats," was willingess to equivocate in the face of totalitarian states: not to take firm moral stands against the like of the Soviet Union or in some cases islamic terrorism. Beinart cites the messianic views of many conservative, particularly neo-conservatives toward foreign policy. America is without moral taint, without self-interest in its foreign policy. Despite that America continues to kill foreign civilians (collateral damage), engages in torture and unlawful detentions. Beinart concludes that liberals are better equipped to lead during the War on Terror because they seek collaboration with allies, and are able to be more self-critical and recognize the country's interest may not always be the same as the rest of the world's. I liked it better than I thought I would