Colossus: The Rise And Fall Of The American Empire

From one of "Time's" "100 People Who Shape Our World" comes a provocative examination of the American way of empire.

Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of Americaas foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American poweramilitary, 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 special brand of imperialism. He examines the challenges to the United States from its principal rivals, the European Union and China, and offers a compelling analysis of the connection between the countryas domestic economic health and its foreign affairsathe bottom line of imperialism, American style. "Colossus" is a peerless reckoning with American power that should be read by any thinking citizen of this unspoken empire.