Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy – Shrewd and Witty Advice from Pulitzer Prize Winner Leslie H. Gelb - Softcover

Gelb PhD, Leslie H.

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9780061714566: Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy – Shrewd and Witty Advice from Pulitzer Prize Winner Leslie H. Gelb
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ISBN 10: 0061714569 ISBN 13: 9780061714566
Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

“Fluent, well-timed, provocative. . . . Filled with gritty, shrewd, specific advice on foreign policy ends and means. . . . Gelb’s plea for greater strategic thinking is absolutely right and necessary.” — The New York Times Book Review

“Few Americans know the inner world of American foreign policy—its feuds, follies, and fashions—as well as Leslie H. Gelb. . . . Power Rules builds on that lifetime of experience with power and is a witty and acerbic primer.” — The New York Times

Power Rules is the provocative account of how to think about and use America’s power in the world, from Pulitzer Prize winner Leslie H. Gelb, one of the nation’s leading foreign policy minds and practitioners.

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About the Author

Leslie H. Gelb is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former columnist at The New York Times, where he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. Gelb has worked as a senior official in the State and Defense departments. He lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

Inspired by Machiavelli's classic The Prince, Leslie H. Gelb offers illuminating guidelines on how American power actually works and should be wielded in today's tumultuous world. Writing with the perspective of four decades of extraordinary access and influence in government, think tanks, and journalism, Gelb provides an incisive look at the major U.S. foreign-policy triumphs and tragedies of the past half century, and offers practical rules on how to effectively exercise power today. Power Rules is an impassioned challenge to both liberals and conservatives and a plea to reclaim the true meaning of power and the essential role of common sense in solving global problems.

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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0061714569
ISBN 13 
9780061714566
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352
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