Balder Ex-Libris

Authors : Brzezinski Zbigniew - Scowcroft Brent
Title : America and the world
Year : 2008

Link download : Brzezinski_Zbigniew_-_Scowcroft_Brent_-_America_and_the_world.zip

Introduction. This book is an invitation to join a conversation with two of the wisest observers of American foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft. Over many mornings and afternoons in the spring of 2008, they sat down together to talk through our country’s current problems—and to look for solutions. The result is an intellectual journey, led by two of the nation’s best guides, into the world of choices the next president will confront. As readers turn the pages of this book, they should imagine themselves sitting around a big conference table in an office building overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue. A few blocks up the street is the White House, where these two men managed the nation’s statecraft in their years as national security advisor. They arrive for each session immaculately dressed, as if heading for the Oval Office to brief the president. We start each conversation with a big cup of coffee or maybe a diet soda—and sometimes a jolt of sugar from some cookies or cake brought from home—and then we turn on the tape recorder. ...