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100	1		_aSchlesinger, Arthur Meier, _d1917- _938773
245	1	0	_aWar and the American presidency / _cArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bW. W. Norton, _cc2004.
300			_axvi, 160 p. ; _c22 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aUnilateralism: The Oldest Doctrine in American Foreign Policy -- Eyeless in Iraq: The Bush Doctrine and Its Consequences -- The Imperial Presidency Redux -- Patriotism and Dissent in Wartime -- How to Democratize American Democracy -- Has Democracy a Future? -- The Inscrutability of History.
520			_aThe gravest decision in a democracy is the one to go to war. In this essential new book, which brings a magisterial command of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., explores the war in Iraq, the presidency, and the future of democracy. Should the United States go it alone, or should it involve the institutions of collective security? Schlesinger points out that unilateralism is the oldest doctrine in American history but that the Second World War marked a turning point. Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton advanced the principle of collective action; with the Iraq War, however, the younger President Bush reverted to unilateralism.
520	8		_aFurthermore, the traditional argument for war has focused on deterrence and containment. The war in Iraq, however, was undertaken on the principle of preventive war, now known as the Bush Doctrine. Schlesinger notes a long line of presidents who have rejected the preventive war argument. It includes no less a figure than Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said, "preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility." Eisenhower had military caution in mind, but Schlesinger also points out another problem with the preventive war argument: it requires an accurate crystal ball. Unfortunately, history can suggest nothing but humility with respect to our ability to forecast the future. Schlesinger goes on, pointing out that wartime involves a predictable expansion of presidential power and suppression of dissent. He wonders about the tainted election of 2000 and offers a plan to revamp the electoral college so that the people's choice would more likely make it to the White House.
520	8		_aFinally, what of democracy itself? The world got along without democracy until two centuries ago, and Schlesinger notes chillingly that there is little evidence that constitutional democracy will triumph in the century ahead. The challenge to twentieth-century democracy was secular totalitarianism; that of the twenty-first appears to be religious fanaticism. The search for a democratic alternative is urgent. "Perhaps no form of government," said the great constitutional historian James Bryce, "needs great leaders as much as democracy." And so Schlesinger skillfully ties the very future of democracy to the question of war and the American presidency.
650		0	_aUnilateral acts (International law) _994964
650		0	_aIraq War, 2003- _xInfluence. _9161439
650		0	_aWar and emergency powers _zUnited States _xHistory. _9161440
650		0	_aPresidents _zUnited States _xHistory. _9161441
650		0	_aDemocracy _zUnited States _xHistory. _9161442
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _xPhilosophy. _9161443
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _y2001- _9161444
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905			_aArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., is a writer and historian. Among his many works are the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Jackson and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. He lives in New York City
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