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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy

Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy

Wertheim, Stephen

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceWorld War II

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ISBN10: 0674271130
ISBN13: 9780674271135
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Published: May 3 2022
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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 the first to expose isolationism as a carefully constructed myth, he does so with devastating effect. --Andrew J. Bacevich, The Nation

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as an armed superpower--and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to World War II, right before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

As late as 1940, the small coterie formulating U.S. foreign policy wanted British preeminence to continue. Axis conquests swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that America should extend its form of law and order across the globe, and back it at gunpoint. No one really favored isolationism--a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy to burnish their cause. We live, Wertheim warns, in the world these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned account that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today's endless wars.

Its implications are invigorating...Wertheim opens space for Americans to reexamine their own history and ask themselves whether primacy has ever really met their interests.

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