Join us tonight at 8pm (Eastern) for another edition of Book Talk Radio with Joe Conason.  Tonight our guest is Andrew Bacevich, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, professor of history and international relations at Boston University, and author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.

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Bacevich identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: The economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, Republicans and Democrats. If the nation is to solve its predicament, it will need the revival of a distinctly American approach: the neglected tradition of realism.

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