The book focuses on policy-making at the highest levels of the United States government. Chapter contributors examine political, military, and foreign policy pr

The Persian Gulf crisis may well have been the most extensively polled episode in U.S. history as President Bush, his opponents, and even Saddam Hussein appeale

and the elder Bush, George W. Bush's White House actively sought to change the international order through preemptive war and aggressive democracy building." --

THE TRIUMPH OF IMAGE over reality and reason is the theme of this book. New communication technologies have made possible the transportation of images and words