STRATEGIC VISION America and the Crisis of Global Power By Zbigniew Brzezinski Illustrated. 208 pp. Basic Books. $26. THE WORLD AMERICA MADE By Robert Kagan 149 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $21. Last fall, television stations carried a 60-second ad for Audi's A6 car. The opening images showed a pitted, potholed American road while the voice-over gloomily...
STRATEGIC VISION America and the Crisis of Global Power By Zbigniew Brzezinski Illustrated. 208 pages. Basic Books. $26. The 2008 crash and America and Europe's continuing economic woes; the rise of China and worries about the decline of the West; and technology-fueled uprisings around the world from the Arab Spring protests to anti-Putin...
ALL THINGS AT ONCE By Mika Brzezinski with Daniel Paisner Illustrated. 232 pp. Weinstein Books. $24.95 When did you first become aware of Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's daily news discussion program ''Morning Joe''? For the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, it was in the 1970s, when she spilled a plate of caviar on his lap. For me, it was a...