The Consequences to Come: American Power After Bush (New York Review Books Collections) - Softcover

For the past seven years The New York Review of Books has critically examined the Bush administration's policies at home and abroad. In this collection of essays, nine of the Review's contributors assess the human and political costs of the war on terror and the occupation of Iraq, and look ahead to the issues shaping the 2008 election campaign.
The presidency of George W. Bush, as Jonathan Freedland noted, has created a near consensus that the "invasion of Iraq was a calamity" and has "reduced America's standing in the world and made the United States less, not more secure." Joan Didion described Vice President Dick Cheney as "the central player in the system of willed errors and reversals that is the Bush administration."
Peter Galbraith argued that from the beginning of the occupation of Iraq, Bush "facilitated the very event he warned would be a disastrous consequence of a US withdrawal from Iraq: the takeover of a large part of the country by an Iranian-backed militia."
As the presidential campaign got underway, Michael Tomasky explained that "despite Bush's failures and the discrediting of Republican governance, there is every chance that the next Republican president, should the party's nominee prevail...will be just as conservative as Bush has been—perhaps even more so." And Frank Rich predicted that it would take the Democrats' "full powers of self-immolation" to lose the White House in 2008.
The Consequences to Come contributors: Joan Didion, Joseph Lelyveld, Mark Danner, Peter Galbraith, Jonathan Freedland, Jonathan Raban, Frank Rich, Michael Tomasky, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Robert B. Silvers is co-editor of The New York Review of Books. Prior to joining the Review, Mr. Silvers was, from 1959 to 1963, associate editor of Harper's magazine, editor of the book Writing in America and translator of La Gangrene. Before that, Mr. Silvers lived in Paris for six years (1952 to 1958), where he served with the U.S. Army at SHAPE Headquarters and attended the Sorbonne and Ecole des Sciences Politiques. He joined the editorial board of The Paris Review in 1954 and became Paris editor in 1956. He also worked as press secretary to Governor Chester Bowles in 1950. Mr. Silvers, who graduated from the University of Chicago in 1947, was born in Mineola, New York.