
"This excellent book is required reading for anyone interested in how American presidents have tried to sell war."--Steven Casey, author of Selling the Korean War "This is American history at its best--insightful and revealing about the past, yet at the same time illuminating...

"Asks whether it is ever possible for a president to nudge the nation toward war without lying. And if he does, is it sometimes all right? Most of these authors would vote no."-- Columbia Journalism Review "It was a pleasant and poignant surprise to find an afterword written...