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Article: WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA?(evaluation of book by Eric Alterman Cornell)(Abstract)(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- December 1, 1998
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WHO SPEAKS FOR AMERICA? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy by Eric Alterman Cornell University Press, $25
Elitism in the fashioning of foreign policy, a fact of life for much of 20th century American politics and even an active goal of Walter Lippman's cohort, is now generally perceived as a defeated problem. The Foreign Service has been racially and sexually desegregated; the club-based WASP aristocracy is in shambles; everybody knows everything via the Web and CNN; Congress has become a 535-ring circus where foreign-policy hearings are a favorite sideshow; Washington is now so open and disordered that only the Supreme Court and the Federal Reserve still ...