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Grading the Presidents; None since the cold war earns more than a B.(Second Chance)(Book review)

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Byline: Gary Rosen (Rosen is the managing editor of Commentary.)

For many veterans of the cold war, the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s was a moment of happy vindication. For the famously dour and blunt Zbigniew Brzezinski, it was an occasion for deep concern. What would replace the certainties of the superpower rivalry? In "Out of Control" (1993), he worried that a decadent, materialistic United States would retreat from the world's growing anarchy. In "The Grand Chessboard" (1997), he lamented the absence of a new American geostrategy and set out his own plan for maintaining U.S. hegemony, an exercise that he repeated, more or less, in "The ...

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