The Star-Spangled Mirror: America's Image Of Itself And The World
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith
A one-time Foreign Service officer bemoans the "impatience" of Americans "with the complexity of things" and a determination "to solve international national problems our own way." Although the book was written before the Cold War was clearly over, the nation's behavior in the Gulf War indicates that the message still has some validity.
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