{"id":433,"date":"2010-06-22T12:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T19:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2010-06-22T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T19:34:00","slug":"ikarus-sydrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2010\/06\/22\/ikarus-sydrome\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: The Ikarus Sydrome &#8211; A History of American Hubris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-436\" title=\"The Icarus Syndrome - A History of American Hubris\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/icarussyndrome1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In his new book, journalist Peter Beinart argues that when America&#8217;s optimist spirit became devoid of all limitations, the nation fell victim to hubris &#8212; the same euphoria that afflicts a gambler after winning a few times.\u00a0As a result of feeling unstoppable, America began to project its power globally and beyond what is reasonable and affordable.<\/p>\n<p>As an advocate of American Isolationism (and the ideas of\u00a0<a title=\"Thomas Paine\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Paine\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Paine<\/a> in particular), I know I will find this book to be a fascinating read.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the author&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/peter-beinart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">home page and blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>ISBN: 9780061456466; ISBN10: 0061456462; Imprint: Harper; On Sale: 6\/1\/2010; Format: Hardcover; Trimsize: 6 x 9&#8243;; Pages: 496; $27.99;<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2119\">Book: Those Angry Days<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1708\">Remembering Wernher von Braun<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2011\/08\/19\/magnificent-desolation\/\">Magnificent Desolation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=955\">New Book On Multiple Universes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=572\">From My Bookshelves<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, journalist Peter Beinart argues that when America&#8217;s optimist spirit became devoid of all limitations, the nation fell victim to hubris &#8212; the same euphoria that afflicts a gambler after winning a few times.\u00a0As a result of feeling unstoppable, America began to project its power globally and beyond what is reasonable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-my-reading-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}