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100 _aBacevich, Andrew J.
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245 _aThe reckoning that wasn’t: Why America remains trapped by false dreams of hegemony
260 _aForeign Affairs
300 _a102(2), Mar-Apr, 2023: p. 6-21
520 _aOver the course of many evenings in 1952 and 1953, when I was a kindergartner, my family gathered around a hand-me-down TV in the Chicago housing project where we lived to watch Victory at Sea. With stirring music and solemn narration, this 26-part documentary produced by NBC offered an inspiring account of World War II as a righteous conflict in which freedom had triumphed over evil, in large part thanks to the exertions of the United States. The country had waged a people’s war, fought by millions of ordinary citizens who had answered the call of duty. The war’s outcome. – Reproduced
773 _aForeign Affairs
906 _aPOLITICS AND GOVERNMENT - UNITED STATES
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