num_pages: 240
description: America’s most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations’ foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America’s future by the “suicidal statecraft” of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.
language: English
title: Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
titlecomplete: Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
genres: American, History, Presidents, International Relations, American History, Russia, Politics, Political Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 402
publisher: Basic Books