After Afghanistan, America must not retreat from the world, says the famed French Writer Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Two decades on, as the U.S. prepare to withdraw militarily from Afghanistan, it is time to revisit Lévy’s report, available in English for the first time, and to reflect on what once was hoped and envisioned for the country, as well as what has happened in the years since. Foreword by General David Petraeus.
What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose “Democracy in America” remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
One of the West’s leading intellectuals offers a provocative look at America’s withdrawal from world leadership and the rising powers who seek to fill the vacuum left behind. “The Empire and the Five Kings” is a cri de coeur that draws upon lessons from history and the eternal touchstones of human culture
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