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Bacevich grew up in indiana, graduated from west point and princeton, served in the army, became an academic, and is now a writer. Bacevichs the age of illusions details americas failures in the years. He is a graduate of the us military academy and received his phd in american diplomatic history from princeton university. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at boston university. Let us stipulate at the outset that donald trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame.
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In the age of illusions, bestselling author andrew bacevich takes us from that moment of seemingly ultimate victory to the age of trump, telling an epic tale of folly and delusion. Andrew bacevich primary author only author division. A military history, which has just been published by random house. His next book americas war for the greater middle east. Andrew bacevich, a tomdispatch regular and the author most recently of the age of illusions.
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