Ding ding ding ding ding, we have a winner. Rise and Fall is the only truly indispensable text I have ever encountered in foreign affairs.
I wished I had studied Kennedy when I first set out on my quest for my PhD way, way back. His work is a shortcut to many concepts and insights which require quite a few years of academic effort to attain.
This is so great, this is just the kind of dialoge I was hoping to have, thanks to you both.