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Loading... Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacyby Stephen Wertheim
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"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 the world's armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation's new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore"-- No library descriptions found. |
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The postwar planners had valid motivations from the standpoint of American self-interest. German hegemony of Europe would have created an economic block that could surpass America in trade power and devastate American exports. Would this have actually happened? In retrospect it seems unlikely, but the planners had no way of knowing this. (