Friday, November 28, 2008

A Quartet on Bush's Legacy

"The legacy of George W. Bush’s two terms as U.S. president is widely known, but not deeply," writes Brian Lynch in his examination of recent volumes from Philippe Sands, Jane Mayer, and Barton Gellman.

As a counterbalance, here is John Lewis Gaddis's assessment: Ending Tyranny: The Past and Future of an Idea.
Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale and widely regarded as the dean of Cold War historians.

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