Review excerpt:

Exporting Democracy is not a modest book. Encomium, polemic, call to arms, it tackles a topic no less than America's place in the world. It succeeds brilliantly. The conviction is intense, the insights dazzling and the argument compelling. This reviewer found his doubts--that the democratic ideal can carry so heavy a load--nearly all refuted.

Daniel Pipes, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, is the author of The Rushdie Affair and Greater Syria. Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at AEI.