Warmonger: How Clinton's Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US Trajectory from Bush II to Biden By JeremyKuzmarov. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2023. 423 pages. $30.95 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1949762761

There is undoubtedly room for a corrective to the popular notion that the decade from the end of the Cold War to 9/11-for all intents and purposes, the Clinton years-represented a brief window of peace and de-escalation in the otherwise uninterrupted string of United States global crusades against fascism, communism, and terrorism since 1941.And a corrective to this particular notion is, in fact, the principal objective of Jeremy Kuzmarov's Warmonger.As the blurb for the book from Thomas C. Field, Jr., points out, President William Jefferson Clinton authorized more military interventions in his first term than Ronald Reagan had done in all 8 years of his administration.Despite the hippie, draft-dodger image that he brought to the presidency, Clinton was no peacenik, and Kuzmarov is right that historians should not mistake him for one.Kuzmarov approaches his task of proving Clinton a "warmonger" with a prosecutor's zeal.This leads to a spirited case but also a starkly one-sided one.Any attempt to understand why Clinton handled the world in the way that he did gets squashed by the effort to paint him as an amoral hypocrite.It seems that no published criticism of Clinton as a person or policymaker has escaped Kuzmarov's attention.The narrative is extensively endnoted with everything from books to newspaper and magazine articles to documents from the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.However, all sources, no matter how outlandish, are taken at face value if they advance the case of "Kuzmarov v. Clinton."The word "allegedly" makes frequent appearances throughout the text, such as in cases where Kuzmarov portrays Clinton as a Central Intelligence Agency asset during his Oxford anti-Vietnam War days and as a co-conspirator in Latin American drug-running out of Arkansas during his time as governor in the 1980s.One place where it would have been good to see an "allegedly" inserted-or, better yet, to dispense with the conspiracy theories entirely-is when Kuzmarov flatly states, with no evidence whatsoever, that former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was Hillary Clinton's lover before he was "murdered" in 1993 (65).Another place where Kuzmarov uncritically recycles one of the countless right-wing smear campaigns against the Clintons from the 1990s is in providing tales of Bill's alleged cocaine habit during his days as governor.Several of the endnotes in this section of the book are to a volume co-authored in 2015 by Republican dirty trickster Roger .In his enthusiasm for demonstrating Clinton's hypocrisy