A simple question lurks amid the considerable controversy created
by recent U.S. policy: What road did Americans travel to reach
their current global preeminence? Taking the long historical view,
Michael Hunt demonstrates that wealth, confidence, and leadership
were key elements to America's ascent. In an analytic narrative
that illuminates the past rather than indulges in political
triumphalism, he provides crucial insights into the country's
problematic place in the world today.
Hunt charts America's rise to global power from the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries to a culminating multilayered
dominance achieved in the mid-twentieth century that has led to
unanticipated constraints and perplexities over the last several
decades. Themes that figure prominently in his account include the
rise of the American state and a nationalist ideology and the
domestic effects and international spread of consumer society. He
examines how the United States remade great power relations,
fashioned limits for the third world, and shaped our current
international economic and cultural order. Hunt concludes by
addressing current issues, such as how durable American power
really is and what options remain for America's future. His
provocative exploration will engage anyone concerned about the fate
of this republic.
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