An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
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War on Terror
The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
", analyzing Islamic terrorist networks and proposing policies the United States government should adopt to defeat them. The book was co-written by Richard Perle
Richard Perle
Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government, a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970’s...
, who had previously been chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee
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, and David Frum
David Frum
David J. Frum is a Canadian American journalist active in both the United States and Canadian political arenas. A former economic speechwriter for President George W. Bush, he is also the author of the first "insider" book about the Bush presidency...
, a fellow
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at the American Enterprise Institute
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In 2004, Frum replied to some of the critics of the book in "He That Stands It Now ..." an article that appeared in the National Review
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Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka
Danielle Pletka is the vice-president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute .- Biography :...
, a foreign policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute
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, told the The Forward
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“The political prescriptions contained are terrific. This is a very thoughtful articulation of how to fight the battle ahead of us.”
Political scientist Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
said about the book: "It is now possible to describe a neoconservative
Neoconservatism
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foreign policy, and David Frum and Richard Perle's new book, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, is a useful guide to it. There have been many books written by neoconservatives on aspects of the war on terror, but because of the identity of the authors, the scope of the book and the vigor of argumentation, this one deserves special attention."
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Reviews
- "An End to Evil" by David Frum and Richard Perle, Gary Kamiya, salon.comSalon.comSalon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...
book review, January 30, 2004 - Pat Buchanan's review of An End to Evil
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401EEDA1530F930A25752C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print Michiku Kakutani's review in The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
- http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article3243.html Geoffrey Riklin in The Intellectual Conservative Web site
- http://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/250.asp Harold C. Hutchison at Strategy Page Web site
- Showing Them Who's Boss Fareed ZakariaFareed ZakariaFareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...
in The New York Times Book Review - Two Jeremiads, Stan Crock in Business Week, 2004-02-04
- Powers, Thomas. "An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror". The New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of BooksThe New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...
, 2004-05-11. 51, no. 4: 4. (unavailable online)