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| July 03, 2006 | Lowry, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Good Fight: Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter Beinart HarperCollins, 304 pp., $25.95)

IN an age of hyper-partisan book marketing a title can be just a way to attract buyers. So at first I didn't take the subtitle of Peter Beinart's new book at face value: "Why Liberals--and Only Liberals--Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again." I figured it was a way to make a book mostly devoted to chastising the Left for not taking the War on Terror seriously enough more palatable for liberal readers. I was wrong; Beinart really means it.

But it is an argument that ultimately he ...

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