From the dust jacket: "BEYOND PEACE is a manifesto for a new America, written with visionary insight and a realistic idealism by the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Richard Nixon offers a new agenda for the United States as it defines its role in the complex post-Cold War era.
The collapse of communism, he argues, has offered the United States a unique opportunity for achieving an American renewal. The ultimate test of a nation's character is not just how it responds to adversity in war, but how it meets and masters the challenge of peace: During the cold War, we sought a peace with justice. If America is to remain a great nation, we now need a mission beyond peace.
...the former President perceives a crisis of spirit that extends beyond foreign affairs. It manifests itself in crime, in educaiton, in race relations, in a selective moralism, in a notion of rights without responsibility, and most of all in a corrosive entitlement mentality that he descibes as 'one of the greatest threats to our fiscal health, our moral fiber, and our ability to renew our nation.'"
The collapse of communism, he argues, has offered the United States a unique opportunity for achieving an American renewal. The ultimate test of a nation's character is not just how it responds to adversity in war, but how it meets and masters the challenge of peace: During the cold War, we sought a peace with justice. If America is to remain a great nation, we now need a mission beyond peace.
...the former President perceives a crisis of spirit that extends beyond foreign affairs. It manifests itself in crime, in educaiton, in race relations, in a selective moralism, in a notion of rights without responsibility, and most of all in a corrosive entitlement mentality that he descibes as 'one of the greatest threats to our fiscal health, our moral fiber, and our ability to renew our nation.'"
This is a great book, finished just weeks before former President Nixon died. Regardless of your opinion of him, this book imparts his vast knowledge in foreign affairs. Mr. Nixon offers a new agenda for the United States as it defines it's role in the post-Cold War era.
Mr. Nixon gives us guidelines on how America can remain a great nation. Excellent read!
Mr. Nixon gives us guidelines on how America can remain a great nation. Excellent read!
