GEORGE W. BUSH, "GRADUATION SPEECH AT WEST POINT" (1
June 2002): SUGGESTED READINGS,
AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS, AND ON-LINE RESOURCES
Readings
Arendt, Hannah. The
Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New
American Militarism. How Americans Are
Seduced By War. New York: Oxford, 2005.
Baer, Robert.
See No Evil. The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's
War on Terrorism. New York: Crown, 2002.
Buckley, Mary, and Robert Singh, eds. The
Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism:
Global Responses, Global Consequences. New York:
Routledge, 2006.
Bennett, William J. Why We
Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on
Terrorism. New York: Regnery, 2003.
Bush, George W. A
Charge to Keep. New York: Morrow, 1999.
---. "We Will Prevail." President George W.
Bush on War, Terrorism, and Freedom.
New York: National Review, 2003.
Clark, Richard. Against
All Enemies. Inside America's War on
Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004.
Dawes, James.
The Language of War. Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the
Civil War through World War II.
Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2002.
Dolan, Chris J., and Betty Glad, eds. Striking
First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Policy. New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Donnelly, Thomas. The
Military We Need: The Defense
Requirements of the Bush Doctrine.
Washington, D.C.: American
Enterprise Institute Press, 2005.
Fukuyama, Francis. The End
of History and the Last Man. New York: Free Press, 1992.
Gaddis, John Lewis. Surprise,
Security, and the American Experience. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004.
Gardner, Lloyd C., and Marilyn B. Young, eds.
The New American Empire. A 21st Century Teach-in on U.S.
Foreign Policy. New York: The New
Press, 2005.
Huntington, Samuel P. The
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Ignatieff, Michael. "The Burden." New
York Times Magazine. 5 January
2003. 22-27, 50, 53-54.
Jacobson, Gary C. A
Divider, Not a Uniter: George W. Bush
and the American People. New
York: Pearson Longman, 2007.
Kaplan, Lawrence, and William Kristol. The War
over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's
Mission. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003.
Machiavelli, Niccolo. The
Prince. Trans. and ed., Robert A.
Adams. New York: Norton, 1977.
Orwell, George. "Politics and the English language." < http://www.george-orwell.org/Politics_and_the_English_Language/0.html>
(14 July 2006). Horizon, 1946.
Singer, Peter. The President of Good and Evil.
The Ethics of George W. Bush.
New York: Dutton, 2004.
Walzer, Michael. Just
and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Woodward, Bob. Bush at War. New York: Doubleday, 2002.
---. Plan of Attack. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Zelizer, Barbie, and Stuart Allan, eds. Journalism
After September 11. London: Routledge, 2002.
Audio-Visual Materials
"Bush's Doctrine of Preemptive
Self-Defense." Philosophy Talk. http://www.philosophytalk.org/pastShows/BushsDoctrineofPreemptiveSelfDefense.htm
Audio
recording of a San Francisco radio program supported by the Stanford University
Department of Philosophy featuring guest Professor George Lucas, US Naval
Academy, 2004. Video Recording.
Gaghan, Steven. Syriana. Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Entertainment,
2006. Video Recording.
Greenwald, Robert. Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War. New York: Disinformation Co., Moveon.org, The
Center for American Progress, Artists United, 2004. Video Recording.
Moore, Michael. Fahrenheit
9/11. Culver City, CA: Lion's Gate
Films, 2004. Video Recording.
"The War Behind Closed Doors." Frontline. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 2003. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/.
Video Recording.
"West Point Sends her Men to War!" Newsreel of George C. Marshall addressing the
January 1942 graduating class of West Point.
National Archives and Records Administration. January 1, 1942. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=442969094752664381
(accessed July 11, 2006). Newsreel Recording.
On-Line Resources
Ackerman, David M. "International Law and the Preemptive
Use of Force Against Iraq." Congressional
Research Service Report for Congress. RS21314.
17 March 2003. http://www.boozman.house.gov/UploadedFiles/IRAQ%20-%20International%20Law%20and%20the%20Preemptive%20Use%20of%20Force%20Against%20Iraq.pdf
American Presidents: Information and Resources. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/bush2001pap.htm
The Avalon Project of Yale Law School.
Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy, 1996-2005. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/bush2001pap.htm
Castro, Fidel. "Fidel Castro on the 18th
Brumaire of Mr. Bush." Remarks by
Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at a Rally held in
General Antonio Maceo Square. Santiago
de Cuba. 8 June 2002. http://www.radiohc.org/Distributions/Radio_Havana_English/
(accessed 13 July 2006).
"Chronology: The Evolution of the Bush Doctrine." Background material for the PBS Frontline
program "The War Behind Closed Doors." (2003). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/etc/cron.html.
"Iraq and the 'Bush Doctrine' of
Pre-Emptive Self-Defence." Crimes of
War Project. 20 August 2002. http://www.crimesofwar.org/expert/bush-intro.html
"The National Security Strategy of the
United States of America." September 2002. http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.htm
(accessed May 24, 2006).
"Oil Change. A Campaign to Reduce our Dependence on Oil." http://www.participate.net/oilchange
"Recent Scholarship." PresidentialRhetoric.com. http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/scholarship/index.html.
"Striking First." On-line
NewsHour. July 1, 2002. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/jan-june02/strikingfirst_7-01.html
(accessed July 12, 2006).
West Point Graduates against the War. "Laws and treaties violated by President George W. Bush,
Vice-President Richard Cheney, public officials under their authority, and
members of the U.S. military under their command." http://www.westpointgradsagainstthewar.org/laws_and_treatıes_violated_by_pr.htm.