"More than twenty-five years ago Halberstam told the riveting story of the men who conceived and executed the Vietnam War. Today the author has written another chronicle of Washington politics, this time exploring the complex dynamics of foreign policy in post-Cold War America." "Halberstam evokes the internecine conflicts, the untrammeled egos, and the struggles for dominance among the key figures in the White House, the State Department, and the military. He shows how the decisions of men who served in the Vietnam War - such as General Colin Powell and presidential advisers Richard Holbrooke and Anthony Lake - and those who did not have shaped American politics and policy makers (perhaps most notably, President Clinton's placing, for the first time in fifty years, domestic issues over foreign policy)."-- From the book jacket.

Abortion. -- Mohammed Farah Aidid. -- Madeleine Korbel Albright. -- R.W. Apple. -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide. -- Les Aspin. -- James Baker. -- Paul Begala. -- Lloyd Bentsen. -- Samuel berger. -- Berlin Wall. -- Tony Blair. -- William Jefferson Blythe. -- Bosnia. -- Muslims. -- Bosnian Serbs. -- Boutros Boutros-Ghali. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski. -- George Bush. -- Jimmy Carter. -- James Carville. -- Raoul Cedras. -- Dick Cheney. -- Jacques Chirac. -- Warren Christopher. -- Wes Clark. -- Bill Cohen. -- Cold War. -- John Connally. -- Croatia. -- Walter Cronkite. -- Dick Darman. -- Dayton negotiations. -- Presidential elections. -- Elections. -- John Deutch. -- Bob Dole. -- Tom Donilon. -- Michael Dukakis. -- Larry Eagleburger. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower. -- Gennifer Flowers. -- Gerald Ford. -- John Fox. -- France. -- Peter Galbraith. -- Gay rights. -- Les Gelb. -- Bob Gelbhard. -- Newt Gingrich. -- Mikhail Gorbachev. -- Al Gore. -- Stan Greenberg. -- Alan Greenspan. -- Roy Gutman. -- Haiti. -- Lee Hamilton. -- Averell Harriman. -- Gary Hart. -- Jesse Helms. -- Adolf Hitler. -- Richard C. Holbrooke. -- Eugene Holmes. -- Holocaust. -- Charles Horner. -- Jonathan Howe. -- Impeachment. -- Iran. -- Iraq. -- Alija Izetbegovic. -- Lyndon B. Johnson. -- Richard Johnson. -- Vernon JOrdan. -- George Joulwan. -- Mickey Kantor. -- Radovan Karadzic. -- Nicholas Katzenbach. -- John F. Kennedy. -- Robert Kennedy. -- Henry Kissinger. -- Helmut Kohl. -- Ted Koppel. -- Josef Korbel. -- Kosovo. -- Tony Lake. -- Monica Lewinsky. -- Henry Cabot Lodge. -- Trent Lott. -- Barry McCaffrey. -- John McCain. -- Mike McCurry. -- George McGovern. -- Robert McNamara. -- Merrill McPeak. -- John Major. -- Slobodan Milosevic. -- Francois Mitterrand. -- Ratko Mladic. -- Walter Mondale. -- Bill Montgomery. -- Richard Morris. -- Ed Murrow. -- Ed Muskie. -- Richard Nixon. -- Sam Nunn. -- Bob Oakley. -- David Owen. -- Pakistan. -- Leon Panetta. -- Ross Pewrot. -- Bill Perry. -- Persian Gulf War. -- Poland. -- Colin Powell. -- Dan Quayle. -- Joe Ralston. -- Ronald Reagan. -- Bob Reich. -- Dennis Reimer. -- Donald Rumsfeld. -- Mike Ryan. -- Saddam Hussein. -- Sarajevo. -- Norman Schwarzkopf. -- Brent Scowcroft. -- Serbia. -- John Shalikashvili. -- Jack Sheehan. -- Henry Hugh Shelton. -- Mike Short. -- Somalia. -- Soviet Union. -- Fred Steeper. -- George Stephanopoulis. -- Strobe Talbott. -- Bob Teeter. -- Linda Tripp. -- Franjo Tudjman. -- Cyrus Vance. -- Vietnam. -- Vietnam War. -- John Warden. -- Frank Wisner. -- James Woolsey. -- Boris Yeltsin. -- Warren Zimmermann.