Author: Abbas Akbar
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book tells the story of several characters who, from 1773, established a project in a house in Frankfurt on the "Judenstrasse" to pave the way for a World Government.However, the people mentioned in this book have absolutely nothing to do with any dogma and don't belong to any nation. They are neither left nor liberal, but they use all institutions to pursue their aims.Indeed, they are not part of any organization, but they often use strategies to hide possible research and create confusion and consequently steer people to a false path. To get to their objectives, these people use Christians, Jews, Communists, Fascists, Zionists, Mormons, Atheists, poor or rich, of all!According to the experts, the people mentioned above are called the "Illuminati" (the enlightened, the ones who know), Big Brother, the invisible government, the gray men, the shadow government, the secret government. The Illuminati's actions in the world date back about 3,000 years before Christ when they infiltrated the "Snake Brotherhood" in Mesopotamia. After 3,000 years, it was succeeded by other groups, such as Jews, Christians, Freemasons, or other religious communities.What started in the past, continues to work on the same terms, so we just have to look at the current situation to see where the problem is. The Illuminati control everything in Europe, the United States, and most of the world. Their secret war against humanity is designed to make us accept their tyranny, in other words, a "World Government."As media owners, they begin and determine their outcome. Moreover, they are responsible for the depressions, and the war against terrorism is a pretext for promoting more conflicts. The Illuminati govern through their control of large companies (agreements between cartels, finance, oil, defense, pharmaceuticals, media, etc.), as well as governments, secret societies, intelligence agencies, armies, judiciary, churches, foundations, think tanks, NGOs and the education system. The Chatham House in London and the New York-based "Pratt House" are two main control mechanisms. The power of the Illuminati is ubiquitous, but the masses do not even know their existence.Fritz Springmeier, one of the pioneering investigators, describes the Illuminati's activities as follows: "The Illuminati are the most influential people in the world. They are an elite group - I call them tribes or families - there are 13 main lineages. They lead a double life. They have a life that the world sees and then they have a hidden life that the world doesn't see. There have been very few people who have been able to decipher their secrets. The first 13 lines are the Astor, Bundy, Collins, Dupont, Freeman, Kennedy, Li, Onassis, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Reynolds, Krupp, Russell... the thirteenth lineage concern the Merovingians . I just call it the thirteenth, and then there's the Illuminati Van Duyn lineage. Lineage 13, is extremely important, as it includes the royal families of Europe."A former Illuminati named John Todd says: "the Illuminati spend a lot of money to corrupt people, especially evangelists and Christian preachers: A lot of what you see in churches, thinking this is liberalism is just an illusion. It's difficult for a ministry to reject half a million dollars and they can get even higher amounts. One church got eight million dollars in two years, and another, ten million dollars in a year!"An example of the actions of these gray men: During the American Civil War (1861-1865) northern states (opposed to slavery) fought the southern states (favorable to the maintenance of slavery). Before the war, the Rothschild family sent agents to support the position of Union between the northern states, and at the same time, other Rothschild agents provoked an attitude against the Union among the southern states. When the war broke out, London's Rothschild Bank financed the northern states and southern states.
The World Under the Domination of the Power Elites
Author: Abbas Akbar
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book tells the story of several characters who, from 1773, established a project in a house in Frankfurt on the "Judenstrasse" to pave the way for a World Government.However, the people mentioned in this book have absolutely nothing to do with any dogma and don't belong to any nation. They are neither left nor liberal, but they use all institutions to pursue their aims.Indeed, they are not part of any organization, but they often use strategies to hide possible research and create confusion and consequently steer people to a false path. To get to their objectives, these people use Christians, Jews, Communists, Fascists, Zionists, Mormons, Atheists, poor or rich, of all!According to the experts, the people mentioned above are called the "Illuminati" (the enlightened, the ones who know), Big Brother, the invisible government, the gray men, the shadow government, the secret government. The Illuminati's actions in the world date back about 3,000 years before Christ when they infiltrated the "Snake Brotherhood" in Mesopotamia. After 3,000 years, it was succeeded by other groups, such as Jews, Christians, Freemasons, or other religious communities.What started in the past, continues to work on the same terms, so we just have to look at the current situation to see where the problem is. The Illuminati control everything in Europe, the United States, and most of the world. Their secret war against humanity is designed to make us accept their tyranny, in other words, a "World Government."As media owners, they begin and determine their outcome. Moreover, they are responsible for the depressions, and the war against terrorism is a pretext for promoting more conflicts. The Illuminati govern through their control of large companies (agreements between cartels, finance, oil, defense, pharmaceuticals, media, etc.), as well as governments, secret societies, intelligence agencies, armies, judiciary, churches, foundations, think tanks, NGOs and the education system. The Chatham House in London and the New York-based "Pratt House" are two main control mechanisms. The power of the Illuminati is ubiquitous, but the masses do not even know their existence.Fritz Springmeier, one of the pioneering investigators, describes the Illuminati's activities as follows: "The Illuminati are the most influential people in the world. They are an elite group - I call them tribes or families - there are 13 main lineages. They lead a double life. They have a life that the world sees and then they have a hidden life that the world doesn't see. There have been very few people who have been able to decipher their secrets. The first 13 lines are the Astor, Bundy, Collins, Dupont, Freeman, Kennedy, Li, Onassis, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Reynolds, Krupp, Russell... the thirteenth lineage concern the Merovingians . I just call it the thirteenth, and then there's the Illuminati Van Duyn lineage. Lineage 13, is extremely important, as it includes the royal families of Europe."A former Illuminati named John Todd says: "the Illuminati spend a lot of money to corrupt people, especially evangelists and Christian preachers: A lot of what you see in churches, thinking this is liberalism is just an illusion. It's difficult for a ministry to reject half a million dollars and they can get even higher amounts. One church got eight million dollars in two years, and another, ten million dollars in a year!"An example of the actions of these gray men: During the American Civil War (1861-1865) northern states (opposed to slavery) fought the southern states (favorable to the maintenance of slavery). Before the war, the Rothschild family sent agents to support the position of Union between the northern states, and at the same time, other Rothschild agents provoked an attitude against the Union among the southern states. When the war broke out, London's Rothschild Bank financed the northern states and southern states.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book tells the story of several characters who, from 1773, established a project in a house in Frankfurt on the "Judenstrasse" to pave the way for a World Government.However, the people mentioned in this book have absolutely nothing to do with any dogma and don't belong to any nation. They are neither left nor liberal, but they use all institutions to pursue their aims.Indeed, they are not part of any organization, but they often use strategies to hide possible research and create confusion and consequently steer people to a false path. To get to their objectives, these people use Christians, Jews, Communists, Fascists, Zionists, Mormons, Atheists, poor or rich, of all!According to the experts, the people mentioned above are called the "Illuminati" (the enlightened, the ones who know), Big Brother, the invisible government, the gray men, the shadow government, the secret government. The Illuminati's actions in the world date back about 3,000 years before Christ when they infiltrated the "Snake Brotherhood" in Mesopotamia. After 3,000 years, it was succeeded by other groups, such as Jews, Christians, Freemasons, or other religious communities.What started in the past, continues to work on the same terms, so we just have to look at the current situation to see where the problem is. The Illuminati control everything in Europe, the United States, and most of the world. Their secret war against humanity is designed to make us accept their tyranny, in other words, a "World Government."As media owners, they begin and determine their outcome. Moreover, they are responsible for the depressions, and the war against terrorism is a pretext for promoting more conflicts. The Illuminati govern through their control of large companies (agreements between cartels, finance, oil, defense, pharmaceuticals, media, etc.), as well as governments, secret societies, intelligence agencies, armies, judiciary, churches, foundations, think tanks, NGOs and the education system. The Chatham House in London and the New York-based "Pratt House" are two main control mechanisms. The power of the Illuminati is ubiquitous, but the masses do not even know their existence.Fritz Springmeier, one of the pioneering investigators, describes the Illuminati's activities as follows: "The Illuminati are the most influential people in the world. They are an elite group - I call them tribes or families - there are 13 main lineages. They lead a double life. They have a life that the world sees and then they have a hidden life that the world doesn't see. There have been very few people who have been able to decipher their secrets. The first 13 lines are the Astor, Bundy, Collins, Dupont, Freeman, Kennedy, Li, Onassis, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Reynolds, Krupp, Russell... the thirteenth lineage concern the Merovingians . I just call it the thirteenth, and then there's the Illuminati Van Duyn lineage. Lineage 13, is extremely important, as it includes the royal families of Europe."A former Illuminati named John Todd says: "the Illuminati spend a lot of money to corrupt people, especially evangelists and Christian preachers: A lot of what you see in churches, thinking this is liberalism is just an illusion. It's difficult for a ministry to reject half a million dollars and they can get even higher amounts. One church got eight million dollars in two years, and another, ten million dollars in a year!"An example of the actions of these gray men: During the American Civil War (1861-1865) northern states (opposed to slavery) fought the southern states (favorable to the maintenance of slavery). Before the war, the Rothschild family sent agents to support the position of Union between the northern states, and at the same time, other Rothschild agents provoked an attitude against the Union among the southern states. When the war broke out, London's Rothschild Bank financed the northern states and southern states.
THE POWER ELITE
Who Rules America Now?
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
The New Power Elite
Author: Alan Shipman
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783087897
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; persistent poverty in the south; and rising inequality everywhere – have brought elites and ‘establishments’ under unprecedented fire. Yet those swept to power by this discontent are themselves a part of the elite, attacking from within and extending rather than ending its agenda. The New Power Elite shows how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites’ traditional enemies. It is the first book to combine the politics, economics, sociology and history of elite rule to present a compact, comprehensive account of who’s at the top, and why we let them get there.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783087897
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Elites have always ruled – wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the ‘1%’ can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there’s a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century – a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; persistent poverty in the south; and rising inequality everywhere – have brought elites and ‘establishments’ under unprecedented fire. Yet those swept to power by this discontent are themselves a part of the elite, attacking from within and extending rather than ending its agenda. The New Power Elite shows how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites’ traditional enemies. It is the first book to combine the politics, economics, sociology and history of elite rule to present a compact, comprehensive account of who’s at the top, and why we let them get there.
Studying the Power Elite
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351588613
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, Who Rules America?, on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication in 1967—and through its subsequent editions. The chapters, written especially for this book by twelve sociologists and political scientists, provide fresh insights and new findings on many contemporary topics, among them the concerted attempt to privatize public schools; foreign policy and the growing role of the military-industrial component of the power elite; the successes and failures of union challenges to the power elite; the ongoing and increasingly global battles of a major sector of agribusiness; and the surprising details of how those who hold to the egalitarian values of social democracy were able to tip the scales in a bitter conflict within the power elite itself on a crucial banking reform in the aftermath of the Great Recession. These social scientists thereby point the way forward in the study of power, not just in the United States, but globally. A brief introductory chapter situates Who Rules America? within the context of the most visible theories of power over the past fifty years—pluralism, Marxism, Millsian elite theory, and historical institutionalism. Then, a chapter by G. William Domhoff, the author of Who Rules America?, takes us behind the scenes on how the original version was researched and written, tracing the evolution of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by Domhoff himself, as well as many other power structure researchers, through the 2014 seventh edition. Readers will find differences of opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate everyone’s thinking on these difficult and complex issues, setting the agenda for future studies of power.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351588613
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book critiques and extends the analysis of power in the classic, Who Rules America?, on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication in 1967—and through its subsequent editions. The chapters, written especially for this book by twelve sociologists and political scientists, provide fresh insights and new findings on many contemporary topics, among them the concerted attempt to privatize public schools; foreign policy and the growing role of the military-industrial component of the power elite; the successes and failures of union challenges to the power elite; the ongoing and increasingly global battles of a major sector of agribusiness; and the surprising details of how those who hold to the egalitarian values of social democracy were able to tip the scales in a bitter conflict within the power elite itself on a crucial banking reform in the aftermath of the Great Recession. These social scientists thereby point the way forward in the study of power, not just in the United States, but globally. A brief introductory chapter situates Who Rules America? within the context of the most visible theories of power over the past fifty years—pluralism, Marxism, Millsian elite theory, and historical institutionalism. Then, a chapter by G. William Domhoff, the author of Who Rules America?, takes us behind the scenes on how the original version was researched and written, tracing the evolution of the book in terms of new concepts and research discoveries by Domhoff himself, as well as many other power structure researchers, through the 2014 seventh edition. Readers will find differences of opinion and analysis from chapter to chapter. The authors were encouraged to express their views independently and frankly. They do so in an admirable and useful fashion that will stimulate everyone’s thinking on these difficult and complex issues, setting the agenda for future studies of power.
Superclass
Author: David Rothkopf
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429943998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Each of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? They control globalization more than anyone else. But has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? What happens behind closeddoor meetings in Davos or aboard corporate jets at 41,000 feet? Conspiracy or collaboration? Deal-making or idle self-indulgence? What does the rise of Asia and Latin America mean for the conventional wisdom that shapes our destinies? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws? Drawn from scores of exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, Superclass answers all of these questions and more. It draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our everyday lives. It is the first in-depth examination of the connections between the global communities of leaders who are at the helm of every major enterprise on the planet and control its greatest wealth. And it is an unprecedented examination of the trends within the superclass, which are likely to alter our politics, our institutions, and the shape of the world in which we live.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429943998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Each of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? They control globalization more than anyone else. But has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? What happens behind closeddoor meetings in Davos or aboard corporate jets at 41,000 feet? Conspiracy or collaboration? Deal-making or idle self-indulgence? What does the rise of Asia and Latin America mean for the conventional wisdom that shapes our destinies? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws? Drawn from scores of exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, Superclass answers all of these questions and more. It draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our everyday lives. It is the first in-depth examination of the connections between the global communities of leaders who are at the helm of every major enterprise on the planet and control its greatest wealth. And it is an unprecedented examination of the trends within the superclass, which are likely to alter our politics, our institutions, and the shape of the world in which we live.
Giants
Author: Peter Phillips
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 160980872X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future. Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett. As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management—now represent the financial core of the world's transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management—the facilitators—of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies—and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission—and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 160980872X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future. Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett. As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management—now represent the financial core of the world's transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management—the facilitators—of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies—and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission—and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.
The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367252021
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and government structures that allowed them to dominate America in the 20th-century. Written with unparalleled insight, Domhoff offers a remarkable look into the nature of power during a pivotal time, with added significance for the current era.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367252021
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and government structures that allowed them to dominate America in the 20th-century. Written with unparalleled insight, Domhoff offers a remarkable look into the nature of power during a pivotal time, with added significance for the current era.
In the Shadows of the American Century
Author: Alfred W. McCoy
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608467740
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The award-winning historian delivers a “brilliant and deeply informed” analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America’s attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608467740
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The award-winning historian delivers a “brilliant and deeply informed” analysis of American power from the Spanish-American War to the Trump Administration (New York Journal of Books). In this sweeping and incisive history of US foreign relations, historian Alfred McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power from the 1890s through the Cold War, and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century. Since American dominance reached its apex at the close of the Cold War, the nation has met new challenges that it is increasingly unequipped to handle. From the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracturing military alliances, and the blundering nationalism of Donald Trump, McCoy traces US decline in the face of rising powers such as China. He also offers a critique of America’s attempt to maintain its position through cyberwar, covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.
Tomorrow, the World
Author: Stephen Wertheim
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424866X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. 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. Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.” We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424866X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. 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. Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.” We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.