War in a Time of Peace

Description

"More than twenty-five years ago Halberstam told the riveting story of the men who conceived and executed the Vietnam War. Today the author has written another chronicle of Washington politics, this time exploring the complex dynamics of foreign policy in post-Cold War America.". "Halberstam evokes the internecine conflicts, the untrammeled egos, and the struggles for dominance among the key figures in the White House, the State Department, and the military. He shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War - such as General Colin Powell and presidential advisers Richard Holbrooke and Anthony Lake - and those who did not have shaped American politics and policy makers (perhaps most notably, President Clinton's placing, for the first time in fifty years, domestic issues over foreign policy)."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

For a brief, glorious, almost Olympian moment it appeared that the presidency itself could serve as the campaign.

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Other Editions

• War in a Time of PeaceHardcoverBloomsbury Publishing PLC2002-04-08
• War in a time of peaceScribner2001-01-01
• War in a time of peaceScribner2001-01-01
• War in a Time of PeaceHardcoverThorndike Press2002-03-01
• War in a Time of PeacePaperbackScribner2002-08-20
• War in a Time of PeacePaperbackBloomsbury Publishing PLC2003-04-07