Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power Format:Paperback Life is never peaceful in

Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house

It highlights the Tao Te Ching’s insights on simplicity

and desires

and "Trepak" from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)

Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power Format:Paperback Life is never peaceful inAmerica's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W. Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from the era of Nixon through Reagan to the