War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals By David Halberstam. Scribners, 543 pages, $28.00 Inside David Halberstam’s mammoth opus is a good little book struggling to escape its author’s fatal ambition. The justly celebrated reporter apparently believes it possible to tell the story of U.S. foreign and military policy over a […]
Eric Alterman
Eric Alterman is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, an award-winning journalist, and the author of 12 books, most recently We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, November 2022). Previously, he wrote The Nation’s “Liberal Media” column for 25 years. Follow him on Twitter @eric_alterman
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