DL21C is excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize winning NYT columnist, former senior Defense Department official, and President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations:
LESLIE H. GELB
Join us for an evening of drinks and lively discussion of his new book, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy.
NOW WITH SPECIAL GUESTS
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough
Hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe
On a NEW DATE
Thursday, May 14 @ 7pm
Bennett Media Studios
Loft space of the former VH1 CEO!
723 Washington St.
New York, NY
www.723washington.com
RSVP required for this event. For more information, please visit www.dl21c.org or email contact-dl21c@dl21c.org.
Cosponsored by the New York Alumni Associations of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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“If you care about America’s standing in the world—why it has declined, and how to restore it—this book is essential reading. Les Gelb, one of America's distinguished practitioner-observers of foreign policy, brilliantly explains how a series of administrations weakened our nation’s security, and shows how we can reverse this trend. He skillfully points out how the U.S. failed to use its own strengths to achieve its stated goals, and offers the basic power rules with which the U.S. can—and must—restore its proper leadership role in the world. Power Rules is an indispensable book for the new era."
—Richard C. Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan & Pakistan, U.S. Department of State
“Leslie Gelb has as much experience in foreign policy as anyone alive. Unlike most writers in this field, he isn't afraid to use plain language and say what he means. He relishes hard truths. And he doesn't mind making powerful enemies. All these are prerequisites to writing a modern Prince--which is what Gelb has done. I don't agree with all of it, but I greatly admire this handbook on the uses of American power in a complex age."
—George Packer, staff writer, New Yorker
“Les Gelb tells it like it is: making U.S. foreign policy and using American power are common sense, not rocket science. Our leaders forget this truth at our peril. Incisive and thoroughly compelling, Power Rules is rich in colorful stories as well as in sound advice for our president and our people.”
—Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser
“Power Rules provides a much-needed antidote to the ideological fevers that have ravaged American statecraft in recent years. Leslie Gelb's reflections on power, its effective use, and its limitations are shrewd, trenchant, and refreshingly devoid of either cant or partisanship."
—Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations and history, Boston University
“For years, Les Gelb’s friends have been learning about foreign policy by way of his wisecracks and anecdotes. In Power Rules, he shares a lifetime's worth of wit and wisdom with the rest of the class. The amazing thing about this shrewd updating of The Prince is not just the insight Gelb brings to the topic of America's exercise of power in the post-Cold War, post-Bush world, but how entertaining he makes the whole subject. This book is a must-read not just for President Obama, but for anyone who wants to understand how the new administration can improve its odds of strategic success."
—Jacob Weisberg, editor, Slate magazine