Reviews for School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents

The average rating for School House to White House: The Education of the Presidents based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-04-01 00:00:00 Logan Cullen I read this book sophomore year of college. I rate this book very highly because it was the first book that really opened my eyes to the realities of the neoconservative movement and explained how it impacted foreign policy, particularly the Bush administration's policy. The authors take a well-researched, academic approach which enhances their credibility greatly. This is not one of those ranting, raving political books that just rails about how awful Bush is, which makes its conclusions all the more powerful. I would definitely recommend this book if you want to understand the history of the neoconservative movement, how it is different from the traditional conservative moment, and how the theories of neocons came to have such influence after 9/11.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-01-16 00:00:00 Joseph Calverase The Cold War had ended, democracy and capitalism stood over communism, America emerged as single world superpower, with world as its oyster. And the neocons ruined it. Although, that is to expect from those former trotskyists, lefties masquerading as rightists like they understand true conservatism, those liberal internationalists. Don't get me wrong, I do believe in unipolarity, that America had its own unique opportunity to be a benign giant of the world, presiding over the world. In that way, I agree with the neocons. However, the similarity between me and neocons ends there. I also believe in speak softly and carry a big stick diplomacy, but it seems all that neocons interested is swinging the big stick around. While there are some urgent matters to attend to around the world, they chose to focus on Iraq, even by distorting truth and facts so that they suits the neocons need, such as Saddam and his fictional Weapons of Mass Destruction. By those idiotic deeds, instead of invoking respects for america around the world, anti-americanism sprung from around the world. An eye-opener, especially if you are interested on why neocons are not conservatives at all.