Mortal splendor: The American empire in transition - Hardcover

Mead, Walter Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395429544 ISBN 13: 9780395429549

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1987

Synopsis

Argues that the decline of America is inevitable, examines the efforts of the past four administrations to deal with this decline, and suggests that we must learn to accept our economic and social interdependence with the Third World

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From Publishers Weekly:

Since the end of World War II, Mead asserts, the United States has maintained the largest empire in history. This neoimperialism, he argues, is built on intervention in the domestic affairs of Third World countries and coercive political efforts to block those countries' sustained economic growth. Both Nixon and Carter tried to regulate change in underdeveloped nations in ways that would be acceptable to U.S. corporate interests. Both presidents failed. Now Reagan is trying to turn back the clock by dragging Americans into overseas wars they are no longer willing to support, the author charges. A former director of a federal antipoverty program, Mead in this critique calls for a new populist movement and a revitalized Democratic Party to cut through the bureaucratic maze. He vaguely sketches America's role as steward of a global commonwealth that would address Third World needs for minimum wage, health care, education and pollution control.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0395429544
• ISBN 13: 9780395429549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 381