Description: From the editor of "The New Republic" comes a bold argument about how liberals can win the war on terror by fighting for freedom at home and abroad.
Brief description:
Peter Beinart is an associate professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the senior political writer for The Daily Beast and a contributor to Time. Beinart is a former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The Good Fight. He lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
Review Quotes:
"The Good Fight is a book filled with apt insights and common sense ... Recommended for liberals and conservatives." - Madeleine Albright
"Beinart has given Democrats a blueprint for ... taking back the White House." - Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell
"Peter Beinart takes us on a vigorous and entertaining search for a usable past ... His reasoning must be heard." - Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas
"Beinart, in his deftly argued new book, . . . helpfully grounds the current debate in its oft-forgotten history." - The Boston Globe
"[A]n invigorating pep talk for a dispirited team that has lost the ability to sway voters the way it used to, especially on vital issues of foreign policy. . . . A bracing read, a good two-fisted polemic intended to stiffen the Democratic spine." - William Grimes, The New York Times
"An intellectual archeologist, Beinart excavates that vanished intellectual tradition and sends it into battle in his new book." - The Washington Post
"A thoughtful, provocative, well-written book." - Washington Monthly
"Beinart's mini-history provides some sharp and surprising observations. . . . His candid admission that he failed to live up to his own principles during the rush to war evinces a quality of self-reflection sorely lacking in American public life." - Salon
"This is a brilliant and provocative book in a great tradition." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"Insightful, provocative." - Thomas Friedman, The New York Times