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Ian Bremmer
Positive Financial Times (UK) Perhaps the most original section of his book is a compelling analysis of the race to dominate quantum computing — and how that could become yet another source of conflict between China and the US ... Bremmer concludes optimistically that international crises can also create new impetus and opportunities for international co-operation. It would be nice to believe him.
Fiona Hill
Rave Financial Times (UK) ... a valuable and riveting historic document ... Hill’s personal, professional and political lives form a coherent whole so that each part illuminates the other ... For the British reader, Hill’s memoir makes for sobering, sometimes shaming, reading. Without self-pity, she makes it very clear that her background imposed huge disadvantages on her ... The last part of her book is a passionate argument for the removal of the structural disadvantages that hold back the poor in Britain and the US. When I finished...I was left with one remaining mystery. Why did she do it? Many of Hill’s friends in Washington would have warned her against working for Trump ... On this, Hill is frustratingly taciturn ... a memoir that will give pleasure to readers today—and will be an important document for historians of the future.
John Lewis Gaddis
Rave Financial Times ... well worth the wait ... works brilliantly as a piece of intellectual history, and as a biography of a fascinating and complex man. Fortunately, both Gaddis and Kennan write beautifully. Long quotations from Kennan’s work light up the book ... Gaddis has the intellectual confidence to disagree with his hero’s judgments ... Indeed it is one of the strengths of his book that while the author is a huge admirer of Kennan, he does not attempt to disguise or excuse his failings.
David Runciman
Positive The Financial Times I picked up his book fearing that he might have nothing new to say...he proved me wrong...full of intriguing new lines of thought.
Derek Chollet
Positive The Financial Times The Long Game offers a well-argued and convincing defence of President Obama’s approach to the world ... The fact that Chollet was a participant in the events he analyses has both pluses and minuses for his analysis of the Obama years. On the positive side, it gives The Long Game immediacy and authenticity...At times, however, Chollet’s closeness to the events he is analysing can feel like a handicap.