A review by bookgoonie
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow

5.0

Unfortunately my desire to learn more about the State Department & diplomacy is wrapped up in the shortfalls of this current administration. I’m sure if I’d had been more diligent. educated & interested over the years I probably would have taken away even more from this book full of people & places I don’t have a face for. But I was definitely enlightened to multi-president falling away of diplomacy and movement toward military options. It makes me wonder if this trend is related to those presidents that didn’t serve themselves & their need to beef up their administration with the sexier-testosterone military. As disappointed as I was to see past presidents’ tenure in my mind dim a little or a lot, the current administration blinks loudly “ALERT‼️”. Ronan did a great job narrating his book & one of the reasons I chose the audio.