Friendly Fire
Subtitle: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781586485207
Subjects: International relations; 21st century; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; U.S. Foreign Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; International Relations - General; Latin America - South America; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Modern - General; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur
First sentence: Henry Luce's description of the twentieth century as the "American Century" struck a chord because the phrase coined by the founder of the magazine empire Time Inc. captured the widespread recognition-within and beyond the nation's borders-that, on balance, the United States exercised more positive influence than not on the people, countries, and international institutions with which it engaged.