Political leaders are political readers, too
In the past month, important political figures have been seen with books published by Yale University Press: Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World by Joshua Kurlantzick and Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky.
On September 6, 2007, President Bush met with Kevin Rudd, the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament. The Sydney Morning Herald’s international editor Peter Hartcher reported that Rudd “handed the leader of the free world two books.” One of these books was Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World by Joshua Kurlantzick.
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Through new foreign policy tactics that rely on charm instead of intimidation, China is developing stronger alliances with many nations around the globe. Charm Offensive is the first to examine the significance of this new diplomacy focused on soft power and looks at what Beijing’s global ambitions may mean for the U.S. and the world.On September 23rd, 2007, David Cracknell of the The Sunday Times reported that England’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a copy on hand of Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft by Michael Makovsky.
Brown is a voracious reader…. On the table next to his desk are Churchill’s Promised Land, Thatcher’s Statecraft and a collection of Nelson Man-dela’s speeches: hard going for most, staple matter for Gordon. It will all go into the big speech to conference tomorrow.
This book, Churchill’s Promised Land, is the first to explore fully the role that Zionism played in the political thought of Winston Churchill. Tracing the development of Churchill’s positions toward Zionism and the Jewish people throughout his long career, Michael Makovsky offers a fresh and balanced insight into one of the twentieth century’s greatest figures.Both of these books are part of the New Republic Book series, published by Yale University Press. In conjunction with The New Republic magazine, Yale University Press publishes books and pamphlets on a range of perspectives on American and international politics as well as the world of arts, letters, and culture.
Great to see Yale University press produce The great Republic magazine for we need dialogue in order to improve the well being of our Nation. One great thing I miss about College and University classrooms was social debates and open topic discussions in class. Interesting to hear comments and then hear closing points as the entire class contributed points and then come to a fair positive conclusion. If we truly had Freedom of the press and unfiltered media our Nation could really have a dialogue avoiding the one sided points in favor of special interests or the inimical policies hurting the general population.