![]() Kaplan's got both his hats on at the same time, and the travel writer (who likes flavors and vistas) keeps barging in. The good parts: he book goes to pieces immediately. Kaplan's latest book, Imperial Grunts - and, by extension, Kaplan's entire body of work. ![]() In today's New York Times Book Review, Lipsky does a number on Robert D. According to numerous accounts, Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts and its "ancient hatreds" thesis convinced Bill Clinton not to intervene in Bosnia during the earlier years of his presidency. O'Rourke had given up writing to entertain and instead tried writing for policy elites - and then those policy elites actually took him seriously. Kaplan has my dream job, a bewitching m?lange of travel writer and analyst of world politics. I fear that part of this is born out of petty jealousy. With the exception of a lovely Atlantic profile of Sam Huntngton, I've never really cared for most of Robert D. ![]()
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