The Icarus Syndrome
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Sara Douglass has won leagues of fans worldwide for her epic tales of sorcery, forbidden love, and heart-pounding action. She revealed her biggest story yet with the DarkGlass Mountain saga, and now, at last, the dramatic finale to the epic trilogy!<BR><BR>Tencendor is no more. The land is gone. But a few SunSoars still remain, and a new foe walks the world.<BR><BR>Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil, and Maximilian, the Lord of Elcho Falling, have raised the magic of Elcho Falling, and found new allies against the darkness in the mysterious Lealfast. And more crucially still, Axis SunSoar, former god and current hero, has rediscovered the magical Star Dance and revived his legendary Strike Force to push back the evil hordes commanded by the DarkGlass Mountain.<BR><BR>But their enemy grows stronger through blood and betrayal, the Lealfast have their own agenda, and when unexpected treachery threatens, Axis SunSoar must face a darkness greater than any he has ever known.<BR><BR>"Why do we succumb to hubris? Peter Beinart has written a highly intelligent and wonderfully readable book that answers the question by looking at a century of American foreign policy. As with everything Beinart writes, it is lucid, thoughtful, and strikingly honest."---Fareed Zakaria, Author of the Post-American World<BR><BR>"Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is not of course the first study of America's tendency toward imperial temptations, but it is one of the best, and certainly one of the best researched and best written. Since the cyclical pattern he traces is as pertinent today as it was in the eras of Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson, this is very much a book with a message: a cautionary message to avoid hubris and to recognize the messy reality of world politics."---Paul Kennedy, Author of the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers<BR><BR>"Energetically researched and entertainingly written, Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is both a fascinating intellectual history and an important coming-of-age parable about his generation's hard-learned lesson in the limits of American power."---Jane Mayer, Author of the Dark Side<BR><BR>"The Icarus Syndrome is a confident and contentious history of more than a century of American foreign policy and its recurring tragic flaws. Agree or not with all of Peter Beinart's specific interpretations, one can only admire his effort to understand the cycles of modern American diplomacy and statecraft, and his timely warnings about the temptations of pride." ---Sean Wilentz, Author of the Age of Reagan<BR><BR>"With this perceptive and provocative book, Peter Beinart has given us a compelling argument about our times. The Icarus Syndrome does what works of history and journalism do at their very best: use the past to illuminate, in often stark and surprising ways, the challenges of the present. This is an important book." ---Jon Meacham, Author of American Lion<BR><BR>"Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century---a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only timely, it is indispensable."---Steve Coll, Author of Ghost Wars
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