Son of the Midwest, movie star, and mesmerizing politician--America's fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography.
4000 yildir varligini dünyanin bircok cografyasinda sürdüren gerilla savaslarini, derinlemesine bir arastirmayla inceleyen akademisyen Max Boot, yüzyillar boyunca süren mücadelelerin basarili sonuclarini, basarisiz cikarimlarini ve tarihe yön veren etkilerini Görünmeyen Ordularda gözler önüne seriyor. Roma-Yahudi Savaslarindan Büyük Iskendere, Mezopotamyanin kanli nehirlerinden Cinin ucsuz bucaksiz bozkirlarina, Ingiltere ile Irlanda arasindak...
Praised on publication as "one of the most impressive and unfl inching diagnoses of the pathologies in Republican politics that led to Trump's rise" (Jonathan Chait, New York), The Corrosion of Conservatism documents a president who has traduced every norm and the rise of a nascent centrist movement to counter his assault on democracy. In this "admirably succinct and trenchant" (Charles Reichman, San Francisco Chronicle) exhumation of conserva...
Praised as a "superb scholarly achievement" (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot's role as a "master chronicler" (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908-1987) from historical ignominy to "restore a sense of proportion" to this "political Svengali, or 'Lawrence of Asia' "(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, th...
As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent defense of American democracy.
Pronouncing Mexican immigrants to be "rapists, " Donald Trump announced his 2015 presidential bid, causing Max Boot to think he was watching a dystopian science-fiction movie. The respected conservative historian couldn't fathom that the party of Lincoln, R...
Beginning with Thomas Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary Pirates and moving onto the Boxer Rebellion, the occupations in Haiti, Nicaragua and the Philippines, and the conflicts in Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, and Afghanistan, this book shows how these smaller actions have been essential to the growth and projection of American power.
Beginning with the first insurgencies in the ancient world-when Alexander the Great discovered that fleet nomads were harder to defeat than massive conventional armies-Max Boot, best-selling author and military advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan, masterfully guides us from the Jewish rebellion against the Roman Empire up through the horrors of the French-Indochina War and the shadowy, post-9/11 battlefields of today. Relying on a diverse cast of ...
A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four ?revolutions? in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle?and shaped the rise and fall of empires. War Made New begins with th...
This hardhitting book reminds us of an obvious but often overlooked reason for the failure of our judicial system: judges. Max Boot talks about the problem of judges who are too lenient, discusses the failure of judges to protect children and battered spouses, and explores the abuse of the civil justice system, especially in liability cases that ruin businesses and deprive the public of valuable goods and services.
