Table of Contents:
  • 1. Unilateralism: the oldest doctrine in American foreign policy
  • 2. Eyeless in Iraq: the Bush Doctrine and its consequences
  • 3. The imperial presidency redux
  • 4. Patriotism and dissent in wartime
  • 5. How to democratize American democracy
  • 6. Has democracy a future?
  • 7. The inscrutability of history
  • 8. Holy wars: religion and the American presidency.