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America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

by Mark Steyn

In this, his first major book, Mark Steyn--probably the most widely read, and wittiest, columnist in the English-speaking world--takes on the great poison of the twenty-first century: the anti-Americanism that fuels both Old Europe and radical Islam. America, Steyn argues, will have to stand alone. The world will be divided between America and the rest; and for our sake America had better win.

Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America

Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America

by Josef Joffe

A penetrating critique of America's foreign policy every bit as provocative as Robert Kagan's best-selling Of Paradise and Power . Überpower effortlessly mixes military history with keen diplomatic analysis to provide one of the most important assessments of America's international standing in years. Josef Joffe examines the gargantuan burdens brought on by singular power, arguing that the new Bush foreign... (more)

Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage

Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage

by Meic Pearse

"Why do they hate us so much?" Many in the U.S. are baffled at the hatred and anti-Western sentiment they see on the international news. Why are people around the world so resentful of Western cultural values and ideals? Historian Meic Pearse unpacks the deep divides between the West and the rest of the world. He shows how many of the underlying assumptions of Western civilization directly oppose and... (more)

Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776

Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776

by Walter A. McDougall

In "an entertaining and iconoclastic fashion" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the celebrated historian reinterprets the traditions that have shaped U.S. foreign policy from 1776 to the present. "McDougall has written a lively and provocative book" (Wall Street Journal) that is "a rich study of the American experience" (Los Angeles Times).

Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal

Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal

by William R. Hutchison

In this groundbreaking and timely history, an eminent historian of religion chronicles America’s struggle to fulfill the promise of religious toleration enshrined in our Constitution. William Hutchison shows that as Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others emerged to challenge the Protestant mainstream, we have expanded our understanding of what it means to be a religiously diverse country. ... (more)

Colossus and Empire

Colossus

The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

by Niall Ferguson

Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of America’s foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American power—military, economic, cultural, and political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and shows the fateful consequences of its... (more)

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