The Rise and Decline of the American Century av William O. III Walker

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<P>In 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation¿s leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-II era proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Even so, Luce had articulated an animating idea that, as William O. Walker III skillfully shows in <I>The Rise and Decline of the American Century</I>, would guide United States foreign policy through the years of hot and cold war.</P><P>The American Century was, Walker argues, the counter-balance to defensive war during World War II and the containment of communism during the Cold War. American policymakers pursued an aggressive agenda to extend U.S. influence around the globe through control of economic markets, reliance on nation-building, and, where necessary, provision of arms to allied forces. This positive program for the expansion of American power, Walker deftly demonstrates, came in for widespread criticism by the late 1950s. A changing world, epitomized by the nonaligned mov