What can Generation X add to American foreign policy?
Two intrepid observers, however, suggest that Rhodess book represents some generational naivete. I mean, Steven Cooks review essay in Foreign Policy is literally titled Generation Xs Short Arc of History. Cook suggests that Rhodes should embrace his generations legacy of cynicism: [Rhodes] remains  despite his weary tone  a believer in U.S. exceptionalism and thus clearly regards the last 20 years to be an aberration. It would be hard not to be, having served the first Black president  although Obama would likely be the first to tell Rhodes the antecedents of the United States present pathologies run deeper than an era bookended by a crisp, clear Tuesday morning in September around the turn of the century and an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.