Volume 47, Number 1 · January 20, 2000
Clinton & His Enemies
By Lars-Erik Nelson
Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation
by James MacGregor Burns, by Georgia J. Sorenson
Scribner, 416 pp., $27.50
Vote.com
by Dick Morris
Renaissance Books, 236 pp., $22.95
Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy
by William G. Hyland
Praeger, 220 pp., $24.95
Writing on the eve of the 1952 presidential election, the Cambridge political scientist D.W. Brogan described a peculiar trait in the American psyche, which he called 'the illusion of American omnipotence.' This, he elaborated, 'is the illusion that any situa-tion which distresses or endangers the United States can only exist because some Americans have been fools or knaves.'[1]
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