Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away By Michael A. Ledeen The AEI Press / 169 pages / $24.95

Review excerpt:

Ledeen shows how, at the very height of what ought to have been U.S. self-assurance in surveying the collapse of Communism, President Bush, and his secretary of state James Baker, clung to a desire for "stability" not just within the foundering Soviet empire, but within collapsing Yugoslavia too. The post-Soviet scenarios are still being played out. But the disaster in the Balkans is plain for all to see.

Michael A. Ledeen is a resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at AEI.