Some Inheritance
Admittedly, Obama "inherited" a mess, but it is not a mess that he was unfamiliar with. Nor can anyone be elected president in the U.S. if they do not fit the general conforming modes of acceptable presidential practices. Nor should any reader be under any illusion that the mess was a result of the Bush administration, but is the ongoing familiar territory of U.S. foreign policy. Only six months into the Obama tenure, and there are very few signs of "hope" and "audacity" (attacking Pakistan and increasingly using Ms Clinton to spread U.S. threats around counts for neither).
All the same, The Inheritance provides a good enough read for a non-academic, not too critical audience to pick up on some current events information they may have missed out on during the Bush years. Just don't expect any great pronouncements of solutions for the future.
[1] see Paul Starobin, After America, at click hereThe Global Deal (Public Affairs, Perseus, New York. 2009) is a flawed discussion of climate change and the economy.
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