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Article: Presidents and Foreign Policy: Countdown to Ten Controversial Decisions.
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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EDWARD R. DRACHMAN AND ALAN SHANK, Presidents and Foreign Policy: Countdown to Ten Controversial Decisions (New York: State University of New York Press, 1997), 390 pp. $19.95 paper (ISBN 0-7914-3339-0).
How many students have, at one time or another, read about a White House decision and asked why on earth the president would do such a stupid thing? Edward R. Drachman and Alan Shank try to answer this question by placing their readers inside the Oval Office at the moment the president made his critical choice. Furthermore, by literally counting down the days to the decision, they attempt to reconstruct exactly what the president knew--and nothing more--when he ...