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America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Derek Leebaert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
612 pages; $35
It was cruel of a senior official to swipe two “reckless” policy directives on trade from President Donald Trump’s desk before he could sign them. He should not have left the chief executive to start his working day staring into empty space. Sad. Better to have left the president to contemplate a sheet of paper with a one-line sentence from a former secretary of state: Pottery Barn rule — you break it, you own it.
Colin Powell deployed the Pottery Barn
America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
Derek Leebaert
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
612 pages; $35
It was cruel of a senior official to swipe two “reckless” policy directives on trade from President Donald Trump’s desk before he could sign them. He should not have left the chief executive to start his working day staring into empty space. Sad. Better to have left the president to contemplate a sheet of paper with a one-line sentence from a former secretary of state: Pottery Barn rule — you break it, you own it.
Colin Powell deployed the Pottery Barn
