Volume 19, Number 5 · October 5, 1972
The Defeat of America
By Henry Steele Commager
Roots of War
by Richard J. Barnet
Atheneum, 406 pp., $10.00
American scholars are increasingly asking themselves the question that German scholars have been asking for the past quarter century: how to explain the catastrophe? For while the American involvement in Southeast Asia, examined in Richard Barnet's perspicacious book, is materially catastrophic chiefly for Asians, morally it is a catastrophe for the American people analogous to that which so profoundly disturbed thoughtful and historical-minded Germans like Meinecke or Gerhard Ritter or Theodor Litt.
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