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Title: Ideological Bias
Review: If current readers want some sense of how academic writing can serve the interests of those who have and want to hold onto power, they should read this book. They can take it as a fine example of how government and their intellectuals produce stories to support their own positions and find in them the words and language they need to justify and 'explain' their actions. Kagan's enormous attack on John Kennedy (nicely refuted in recent writings on JFK) aims to shatter the idea that there are other ways of dealing with power than those recommended by the chicken-hawklets in the Bush administration. Also, there are other things to say about Thucydides than those Kagan chooses as essential to understanding war and the preparation to 'deter' it. Surely readers notice how often Kagan offers accounts of 'pre-emptive' wars?
