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Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America
Josef Joffe

 
     
  Friday, September 15, 2006

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Josef Joffe assesses the rise of American power since the end of the Cold War from a remarkably sympathetic vantage point.  He traces the roots of the world's growing anti-Americanism not just to the disastrous Iraq War--a mistake for which America is paying dearly--but to envy, fear, and the failure to keep up.

 
 

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