{"product_id":"zbig-the-life-of-zbigniew-brzezinski-americas-great-power-prophet-hardcover","title":"Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Luce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intimate and masterful biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski--President Carter's national security advisor and one of America's leading geopolitical thinkers--from one of the finest columnists and political writers at work today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZbigniew Brzezinski was a key architect of the Soviet Union's demise, which ended the Cold War. A child of Warsaw--the heart of central Europe's bloodlands--Brzezinski turned his fierce resentment at his homeland's razing by Nazi Germany and the Red Army into a lifelong quest for liberty. Born the year that Joseph Stalin consolidated power, and dying a few months into Donald Trump's first presidency, Brzezinski was shaped by and in turn shaped the global power struggles of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As counsel to US presidents from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, and chief foreign policy figure of the late 1970s under Jimmy Carter, Brzezinski converted his acclaim as a Sovietologist into Washington power. With Henry Kissinger, his lifelong rival with whom he had a fraught on-off relationship, he personified the new breed of foreign-born scholar who thrived in America's \"Cold War University\"--and who ousted Washington's gentlemanly class of WASPs who had run US foreign policy for so long. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrzezinski's impact, aided by his unusual friendship with the Polish-born John Paul II, sprang from his knowledge of Moscow's \"Achilles heel\"--the fact that its nationalities, such as the Ukrainians, and satellite states, including Poland, yearned to shake off Moscow's grip. Neither a hawk nor a dove, Brzezinski was a biting critic of George W. Bush's Iraq War and an early endorser of Obama. Because he went against the DC grain of joining factions, and was on occasion willing to drop Democrats for Republicans, Brzezinski is something of history's orphan. His historic role has been greatly underweighted. In the almost cinematic arc of his life can be found the grand narrative of the American century and great power struggle that followed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Luce is the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e's chief US commentator and columnist. He is the author of three acclaimed books: \u003ci\u003eThe Retreat of Western Liberalism \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), \u003ci\u003eTime to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent \u003c\/i\u003e(2012), and \u003ci\u003eIn Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India \u003c\/i\u003e(2007). He appears regularly on CNN, NPR, MSNBC's \u003ci\u003eMorning Joe\u003c\/i\u003e, and the BBC. He lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978261463341,"sku":"9781982173647","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/gwNDwqTCOj9781982173647.webp?v=1775801322","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/zbig-the-life-of-zbigniew-brzezinski-americas-great-power-prophet-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}