Tomorrow The World: Birth Of U S Global Supremacy Stephen Wertheim Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

A Foreign Affairs Best Book Of The Year“Even In These Dismal Times Genuinely Important Books Do Occasionally Make Their Appearance…You Really Ought To Read It…A Tour De Force…While Wertheim Is Not First Expose Isolationism As Carefully Constructed Myth He Does So With Devastating Effect ” —Andrew J Bacevich Nationfor Most Its History United States Avoided Making Political And Military Commitments That Would Entangle It Power Politics Then Suddenly Conceived New Role For Itself An Armed Superpower—And Never Looked Back Tomorrow World Stephen Traces America’s Transformation War Ii Right Before Attack On Pearl Harbor Late 1940 Small Coterie Formulating U S Policy Wanted British Preeminence Continue Axis Conquests Swept Away Assumptions Leading Them Conclude America Should Extend Form Law Order Across Globe At Gunpoint No One Favored “Isolationism”—A Term Introduced By Advocates Supremacy Burnish Cause We Live Warns Men Created Sophisticated Impassioned Account Questions Wisdom Reveals Intellectual Path Brought Us Today’s Endless Wars “Its Implications Are Invigorating…Wertheim Opens Space Americans Reexamine Own Ask Themselves Whether Primacy Has Ever Met Interests ”—New Republic“For Almost 80 Years Now Historians Diplomats Have Sought Only Describe Swift Advance Global But Also Explain It…Any Writer Wanting Novel Contribution Either Evidence Interpretation Or Least Be Older Argument Some Improved Eye-Catching Way Both ”—Paul Kennedy Wall Street Journal Σελίδες: 272 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0503 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm