![]() Reviewing the book for The Washington Times, Jennifer Harper wrote that it offers "specific suggestions from the nation's history which often appears to be at risk at the hands of revisionists with an agenda", and "makes the case for a strong national defense", while providing "practical and prudent pointers on how to restore the nation's powerful footprint on the global stage, along with advice for those to come." 'President Obama has departed from the bipartisan tradition going back 75 years of maintaining America's global supremacy and leadership,' the Cheneys write, calling the idea that 'America is to blame and her power must be restrained' the 'touchstone of (Obama's) ideology.'" less safe by failing to wield American power around the globe. Writing for MSNBC, Zachary Roth describes the book an attack on the Obama administration's foreign policy, "which, the Cheneys argue, has made the U.S. this feels like a swansong" and described the book as "part relentlessly militaristic to-do list for the next commander in chief." Lozda also was critical of the book as "unconvincing" and a "selective history." In The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada wrote that "It is far from clear that Cheney's arguments. The authors conclude: "we are, in fact, exceptional." Reception Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan." They contend that, "it is the brave men and women of the United States armed forces who defend our freedom and secure it for millions of others as well", and that America is "the most powerful, good, and honorable nation in the history of mankind, the exceptional nation." Īfter setting out and arguing the case for American Exceptionalism in the book, the Cheneys state: "we are, as Lincoln said, 'the last, best hope of earth'." They argue that America is not just "one more indistinguishable entity on the world stage", but that the United States has, "been essential to the preservation and progress of freedom, and those who lead us in the years ahead must remind us, as Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Reagan did, of the special role we play". They should learn about great men like George C. In their prologue, the authors state their purpose in the book: "We must ensure our children know the truth about who we are, what we've done, and why it is uniquely America's duty to be freedom's defender. Drawing upon the notion of American exceptionalism, the co-authors criticize Barack Obama's and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's foreign policies, and offer what they see as the solutions needed to restore American greatness and power on the world stage in defense of freedom. ![]() The authors tell the story of what they describe as the unique role the United States has played as a defender of freedom throughout the world since World War II. Roosevelt's administration through the Obama administration. foreign policy and military successes and failures from Franklin D. The book offers a vehement criticism of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, and an unwavering defense of the virtue of American exceptionalism. Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America is a 2015 book on American foreign policy co-authored by Dick Cheney, who served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and his daughter, Liz Cheney, a former official of the United States Department of State. ![]()
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