Book Review by James Russell of The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power written by Max Boot
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Russell, James A.
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2004
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Summer 2004
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One has only to turn on the television these days and see the awful grist that is offered
to the public in the guise of badly written situation comedies and dramas, not to mention
the proliferation of supposed news shows consisting of people shouting at each
other in stage-managed entertainment on sets with pictures of the U.S. Capitol in the
background. Surprisingly, one sees few historical dramas on television, unlike, for example,
in England, where the British Broadcasting Corporation routinely draws on
some episode in the country’s history to provide well-done and generally interesting
popular entertainment.
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Book review of Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York: Basic Books, 2002. 427 pp. $30.
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National Security Affairs
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Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer 2004, pp. 124–181
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.