Recommended: Brzezinski & Scowcraft: - America and the World

Zbigniew Brzezinski was President Carter’s National Security Advisor; Brent Scowcroft was the National Security Advisor to Gerald Ford and then the elder President Bush. Both are considered among the brightest minds in Washington. Early this year they sat down with noted journalist David Ignatius for a series of recorded private discussions about America’ place in the current world, and their views on what the next American president needs to do. This book is the result (transcript) of that discussion.

One is a democrat and one a republican, but both are foreign policy “realists”, and they are in remarkably close agreement about what needs to be done. We all ought to read this book, but one certainly hopes the next president, whomever that turns out to be, reads it.