Paul Bracken, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (186p) ISBN 978-0-06-019344-7
""A multipolar balance of terror stretches over a six-thousand-mile arc, comprising some of the most unstable countries on earth."" Such ominous phrases abound in this alarming vision of the post-Cold War geopolitical landscape. Yale political...
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Paul Bracken. CreateSpace, $13.40 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4923-1090-7
In the ancient Sumerian epic Gilgamesh, the eponymous fifth king of Uruk asks the question that has haunted humanity since its beginnings—“Must I die?”—and then sets out to discover the secret of immortality. Of course, he never finds it, and death...
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Paul Bracken. Times, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9430-5
Bracken (Fire in the East), Yale political scientist and an adviser to the Defense Department, addresses the uncomfortable subject of post–cold war nuclear management. He convincingly describes a 21st-century “second nuclear age” characterized by...
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