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Tomorrow, the World : The Birth of U. S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674271130
ISBN-139780674271135
eBay Product ID (ePID)3050431930
Product Key Features
Book TitleTomorrow, the World : the Birth of U. S. Global Supremacy
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMilitary / World War II, United States / 20th Century, International Relations / General, United States / General
Publication Year2022
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorStephen Wertheim
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Dewey Edition23
ReviewsStephen Wertheim isn't only a great historian of American foreign policy. He uses history to offer a critique of American foreign policy that Americans desperately need now., He brings into sharp focus the doings of elites...America's pursuit of global supremacy was, in his engaging and studious retelling, less the final outcome of long-simmering forces or of latent but unreasoned belief systems than a 'deliberate decision' made by a numerically small group of individuals at a very specific moment in time.
Dewey Decimal327.73
SynopsisA 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." -- New Republic "For almost 80 years now, historians and diplomats have sought not only to describe America's swift advance to global primacy but also to explain it...Any writer wanting to make a novel contribution either has to have evidence for a new interpretation, or at least be making an older argument in some improved and eye-catching way. Tomorrow, the World does both." --Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal, How did the United States appoint itself as the world's supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives of the U.S. foreign policy elite to trace armed dominance to its origin in World War II. He shows how officials and intellectuals suddenly chose to embrace perpetual dominance--at the price of perpetual war., "Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance While Tomorrow, the World is not a long book it is a tour de force." -Andrew J. Bacevich, The Nation "Stephen Wertheim isn't only a great historian of American foreign policy. He uses history to offer a critique of American foreign policy that Americans desperately need now." -Peter Beinart, author of The Icarus Syndrome "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." -Daniel Bessner, New Republic "For almost 80 years now, historians and diplomats have sought not only to describe America's swift advance to global primacy but also to explain it Any writer wanting to make a novel contribution either has to have evidence for a new interpretation, or at least be making an older argument in some improved and eye-catching way. Stephen Wertheim's Tomorrow, the World does both." -Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style 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.
LC Classification NumberE744
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