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Gallery FeedThe Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris
Peter Beinart, Associate Professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York, and the senior political writer for The Daily Beast in conversation with US Studies Centre Associate Professor in US Politics Brendon O'Connor. Beinart portrays three extraordinary generations: the progressives who took America into World War I, led by Woodrow Wilson, who for a moment became the closest thing to a political messiah the world had ever seen. The Camelot intellectuals who took America into Vietnam, led by Lyndon Johnson, who lay awake at night in terror that his countrymen considered him weak. And George W. Bush and the post–cold war conservatives, who believed they could simultaneously bludgeon and liberate the Middle East.
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