The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order

By Hal Brands and Charles Edel

Book Overview

In this timely new book, two distinguished historians remind us that American prosperity and security were built by leaders with a tragic understanding of the past. Brands and Edel argue that recovering a tragic sensibility--an understanding that the descent into violence and war has been all too common throughout human history--is necessary to address the dangers that stalk the international order today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030023824X
• ISBN13: 9780300238242
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"