Volume 55, Number 6 · April 17, 2008
Big Ideas for a New President
By Edward Mortimer
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership
by Madeleine Albright, with Bill Woodward
HarperCollins, 328 pp., $26.95
The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation
by Strobe Talbott
Simon and Schuster, 478 pp., $30.00
The Next American Century: How the US Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise
by Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen
Simon and Schuster, 356 pp., $26.00
Seven years have passed since the Clinton administration left office. It's election year, and the prospects look good for a Democratic—perhaps even a Clinton—comeback. Those who served under Bill Clinton, whether or not they hope to be back in office themselves, can reasonably hope that the public will be interested to hear from them again: not as memoirists this time—those with salable memoirs have long since published them—but as elder statespersons, offering wisdom distilled from their experience.
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