What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order
By Ronald Wright.
Description
From the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of A Short History of Progress comes another surprising, frightening and essential book.The USA is now the world’s lone superpower, whose deeds could make or break this century. For better and worse, America has Americanized the world. How did a marginal frontier society, in a mere two centuries, become the de facto ruler of the world? Why do America’s great achievements in democracy, prosperity and civil rights now seem threatened by forces within itself? Brimming with insight into history and human behaviour, and written in Wright&...
ISBN(s)
0676979831, 9780676979831
