Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower.

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Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Basic Books, 2007, 234 pages

Brzezinski is often said to be the foreign-policy guru of Barack Obama, the main Democratic presidential challenger to Hillary Clinton. At 78, Brzezinski asks whether the United States can reclaim its position of world leadership. It can, Brzezinski says, if the next president moves beyond the U.S. emphasis on the ideology of free...