The Statesman: Reflections on a Life Guided by Civility, Strategi
Language: English
Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2018
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- Title
- The Statesman: Reflections on a Life Guided by Civility, Strategi
- Author
- Abshire, David
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1538109212
- ISBN 13
- 9781538109212
All of which makes the warnings contained in these memoirs so topical. Writing near the end of his life, Abshire concludes that our country has lost its sense of strategic direction and common purpose. Our domestic politics have entered an era of hyper-partisanship and gridlock, even as dangerous challenges to U.S. interests gather overseas. America, Abshire concludes, is in deep trouble.
In this extraordinary final love letter to his country, Abshire tells his fellow citizens how to reclaim American exceptionalism. That journey begins with rejecting the great incivility that has infected our national discourse. That fundamental lack respect among political partisans has eroded our trust in each other, and faith in our leaders. The only way to recapture them, Abshire argues persuasively, is to reinvigorate a politics of lively, robust debate within a framework of respect and civil behavior. Before it is too late.
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About the Author
James Kitfield, Editor James Kitfield is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and co-editor of the Center’s Triumph & Tragedies of the Modern Congress and Triumphs & Tragedies of the Modern Presidency. He is also a contributing editor and former senior national security and foreign affairs correspondent at Atlantic Media Company. He has written on defense, national security, intelligence and foreign policy issues from Washington, D.C. for over two decades, publishing hundreds of magazine features and web stories and reporting from dozens of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa. His reporting from conflict zones such as the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan has won numerous awards, including the only three-time winner of the Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense. He is the author of three books on national security, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Kitfield graduated magna cum laude from the University of Georgia’s Henry Grady School of Journalism.
Evan Thomas, Foreword Evan Thomas is the bestselling author of nine works of nonfiction, including Being Nixon,Ike's Bluff, and The Wise Men (with Walter Isaacson). Thomas was an editor, writer, and reporter at Newsweek for 24 years, where he was the author of more than a hundred cover stories. Thomas has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award. In 2005, his 50,000-word narrative of the 2004 election was honored when Newsweek won a National Magazine Award for the best single-topic issue. Thomas is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and has taught writing at Princeton and Harvard. He is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School.
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