THE FIRST ON MY BLOCK !
Dr. Barnett was kind enough to have his publisher send me a copy of the uncorrected proof limited edition of his Blueprint For Action for me to review for another venue ( which I will cross-post here at Zenpundit) allowing me to get the jump on the rest of the blogosphere – and not a few old media reviewers.
If you have been following Tom’s blogging this past year you already have some idea of the shape of BFA but as I scan quickly, there are some twists and surprises in the text even for those familiar with PNM. I’m going to start digging in this weekend but my tentative impression – coupled with a close reading of Dr. Barnett’s interview with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for Esquire magazine – is that BFA may be a far more influential book in terms of public policy than The Pentagon’s New Map.
The first book was the vision. The second looks to be the structure.
Chirol:
August 11th, 2005 at 3:22 pm
You lucky dog! We’ll all be anxiously awaiting your review!
Dan tdaxp:
August 11th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
Congrats!
mark:
August 11th, 2005 at 6:23 pm
Hey Chirol, Hey Dan,
Thank you. It was a very nice gesture for Tom to have his publisher send me a copy, given the number of newspapers and magazines out there competing for one. My review is pretty small beer in comparison though my target audience, mostly historians, would have a high interest level.
Interestingly enough, these uncorrected proofs do not have indexes and the endnotes are all marked ” 00″. That kind of organizational editing must be the final step before sending the book to press for the 1st edition.
Younghusband:
August 11th, 2005 at 7:15 pm
Very cool. I can’t wait to get mine (in October!).
Stuart Berman:
August 12th, 2005 at 3:18 am
Oh, you dog!
You leave us with tantalizing morsels… 😉
mark:
August 12th, 2005 at 5:01 am
Thanks YH,
Hi Stu,
That’s the idea ;o) Congrats on the article being published – you’re on a roll !
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