The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance
"This engaging history of the United States' rise to global dominance explains how a weak and peripheral New World republic turned itself into the preeminent power of the twentieth century."--Foreign Affairs"A masterly overview of America's rise to its current status. . . . Given this outstanding book's breadth--both its temporal scope and the issues covered--a brief review cannot do it justice."--Journal of American History"Hunt writes with clarity and verve. . . . [This] should be on the desk of every candidate for national office."--American Historical Review"A provocative book. . . . An impressively argued interpretation."--The International History Review"Provides crucial insights into the nation's controversial role in the world today and prospects for the durability of U.S. power."--Carolina Arts & Sciences"Compact but still reasonably detailed as well as illuminating. . . . Traces the broad lines of the national experience placing them with knowledge and balance within the context of global transformations."--Ricerche di Storia Politica"Hunt is a serious scholar, and there is much to learn from and about his explanation of America's ascendancy. . . . [A] sound study."--MetroMagazine"Broadly conceived, beautifully organized, lucidly written, and richly documented. . . . Essential."--CHOICE"This book is a marvel of research (the annotated bibliography itself is worth the price) and just plain thoughtfulness. . . . Michael Hunt has produced a study that both traditionalists and new diplomatic historians--as well as the public, including politicians--should read, and read again. . . . Students of American history will, I expect, look to this book as a standard of sweeping interpretation and information that surpasses all before it."--Thomas W. Zeiler,H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews"Displays an impressive command of the historical literature, an ability to tackle important contemporary questions, and a capacity to make connections about disparate problems in American history. . . . Hunt's informed review of how the U.S. reached its present dilemma will provide a much-needed historical perspective. Policy makers would do well to ponder this sobering record of how a national search for ascendancy can produce as many intractable problems as it solves."--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society