Cover of The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return

The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return

Praise for Nancy Soderberg's

The Superpower Myth

"A sensible, hard-headed, realistic alternative to the excesses of America's Iraq-era dealings with the world."

Read more

-James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly

"One of the greatest strengths of Soderberg's book is her insider's account of many of the seminal events of the 1990s. Soderberg [gives us] a bird's-eye view of such critical issues as intervention in the Balkans and Haiti and U.S. efforts to combat al Qaeda and hunt down Osama bin Laden."

-Charles A. Kupchan, The Washington Post Book World

"Does America Need a Foreign Policy? by Henry Kissinger, The Choice by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and The Superpower Myth by Nancy Soderberg-all of these authors have firsthand experience in government, and it shows. The Superpower Myth, which doubles as a memoir of Soderberg's years in the Clinton administration, is a history told from inside meeting rooms, full of detail about how government bureaucracies actually function-and why sometimes they don't."

-Jonathan D. Tepperman, The New York Times Book Review

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National Security Shares national security, globalization, politics
  2. Globalization and National Security Shares national security, globalization, politics
  3. Arsenal of democracy Shares national security, politics, USA
  4. The case against the global economy Shares globalization, economic development

“If you want more of the same (philosophy), start with these.”

  1. Reflections on life, death, and the constitution
  2. American virtues
  3. Public Philosophy
  4. Pursuing the American dream

“If it was the globalization that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Manifesto for a New World Order
  2. Globalization and Development
  3. Ethics of global development
  4. Local and Regional Development

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al Qaeda's Leader
  2. The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power
  3. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It
  4. The Hunt for Bin Laden