THE ROCKETS’ RED GLARE When America Goes to War: The Presidents and the People <i> by Richard J. Barnet (Simon & Schuster: $24.95; 496 pp.; </i>
” . . . reveals how the vox populi lost its dissonance . . . encouraging American Presidents to chart foreign policies on their own.”
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