The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory

After America won the Cold War, Andrew Bacevich *82 argues that we developed a hubris that undermined the seemingly bright future ahead. In The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory (Metropolitan), Bacevich argues that America’s practice of economic globalization fostered a series of “forever wars,” growing tension among an increasingly polarized electorate, and moral upheaval that eventually led to the election of Donald Trump.