The New Republic

Eisenhower in War and Peace By Jean Edward Smith (Random House, 950 pp., $40) READ MORE >>

The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History By Samuel Moyn (Belknap Press, 337 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>

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The Bush-Quayle ticket is a powerful symbol of the moral decline of the American ruling class. Con- sider the response of each half of this generationally balanced ticket to its generation's war. In 1941 George Herbert Walker Bush, scion of a rich and politically influential family, was a 17-year-old senior at a prestigious New England prep school, A secure and idyllic childhood, spent in the bosky suburban towns of Milton, Massachusetts, and Greenwich, Connecticut, and in summerhouses and sailboats on the Maine coast, was behind him. READ MORE >>