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Carefully enumerates the many ways that this government has imposed its will on the rest of the world since 9/11...Rudnicki is utterly appropriate for such a foreboding text...his air of pomp and circumstance reminds one of Sebastian Cabot. -- AudioFile [Kaplan's] detailed, illuminating accounts of the evolution of the Bush administration's strategic doctrines add up to a cogent brief for soft realism over truculent idealism. -- Publishers Weekly Kaplan reveals how the Bush administrations' idle fantasies have put the US in a more vulnerable position. Rudnicki's deep, foreboding voice perfectly matches the tone of this book, giving the true gravitas of the situation. -- Publishers Weekly (audio review) A lively and entertaining--if occasionally horrifying--read, it offers a cautionary tale for any administration and for the men and women who hope to serve in one...Even when the facts are familiar, Kaplan weaves these stories together in a way that highlights the often hidden connections between them. The result is an account of the pathologies not only of individuals and departments in the Bush administration, but also of Washington itself. -- Washington Post What sets Mr. Kaplan's Daydream Believers apart is his emphasis on the Bush administration's failure to come to terms with a post-Cold War paradigm, which, he argues, left America's power diminished, rather than enhanced, as former allies, liberated from the specter of the Soviet Union, felt increasingly free to depart from Washington's directives. Also illuminating is his close analysis of the impact that the White House's idees fixes had, not just on the Iraq war but also on other foreign policy problems like North Korea. -- New York Times

[Kaplan's] detailed, illuminating accounts of the evolution of the Bush administration's strategic doctrines add up to a cogent brief for soft realism over truculent idealism. -- Publishers Weekly A lively and entertaining--if occasionally horrifying--read, it offers a cautionary tale for any administration and for the men and women who hope to serve in one...Even when the facts are familiar, Kaplan weaves these stories together in a way that highlights the often hidden connections between them. The result is an account of the pathologies not only of individuals and departments in the Bush administration, but also of Washington itself. -- Washington Post Carefully enumerates the many ways that this government has imposed its will on the rest of the world since 9/11...Rudnicki is utterly appropriate for such a foreboding text...his air of pomp and circumstance reminds one of Sebastian Cabot. -- AudioFile Kaplan reveals how the Bush administrations' idle fantasies have put the US in a more vulnerable position. Rudnicki's deep, foreboding voice perfectly matches the tone of this book, giving the true gravitas of the situation. -- Publishers Weekly (audio review) What sets Mr. Kaplan's Daydream Believers apart is his emphasis on the Bush administration's failure to come to terms with a post-Cold War paradigm, which, he argues, left America's power diminished, rather than enhanced, as former allies, liberated from the specter of the Soviet Union, felt increasingly free to depart from Washington's directives. Also illuminating is his close analysis of the impact that the White House's idees fixes had, not just on the Iraq war but also on other foreign policy problems like North Korea. -- New York Times

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Fred Kaplan writes the War Stories column in Slate. He's also written about national security for the Atlantic, New York Times, New Yorker, New Republic, and others. He has a PhD from MIT and spent decades covering the Pentagon as a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. He lives in Brooklyn with his two daughters and his wife, NPR host Brooke Gladstone. Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012. Emily Janice Card (a.k.a. Emily Rankin) is an actor, writer, and singer from North Carolina, now residing in Los Angeles. In addition to being a narrator, she has directed numerous audiobooks, including the 2007 Audie and Earphones Award winner Hubris, Legacy of Ashes by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner, and Them by Nathan McCall. Her own audiobook narration has won her four Earphones Awards.

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