The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies - Softcover

Joffe, Josef

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871408465 ISBN 13: 9780871408464

Publisher: Liveright, 2014

Synopsis

“A bracing and intelligent reminder that, for all its woes, America remains extraordinarily dynamic, innovative, and resilient.”―Fareed Zakaria

Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2013, The Myth of America’s Decline is a highly provocative look at how the United States, for all its failings, continues to be the leading business, political, and intellectual model for all other nations. In a world where America bashers constantly chortle that the United States is in decline, Josef Joffe, using lively historical examples and empirical economic models, demonstrates that these doomsday contentions are flawed, and that America―even when compared with a resurgent China―is the land where the future is being born.
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About the Author

Publisher-editor of Die Zeit and the author of Überpower, Josef Joffe was educated at Swarthmore College and Harvard University. A frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, he is a founding board member of the American Interest. He is a Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Review

“Effectively lays to rest the belief that America has lost its preeminence. . . . A book that should be of interest to all who may be worried about America’s future.”
- Henry A. Kissinger

“In lucid and logical style, one of Europe’s leading intellectuals skewers the anti-Americanisms of his compatriots while telling the United States how to survive as the only superpower.”
- Joseph S. Nye Jr., author of Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

“Persuasive. . . . . For readers tired of blame-America-first critics or who want to find out what a smart, influential European thinks of the country’s prospects, Joffe’s book is a useful place to begin.”
- Publishers Weekly

“[A] lively, convincing, salutary argument.”
- Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

“A stirring case against the Fareed Zakaria and Thomas Friedman’s of the world that America is strong and getting stronger.... While acknowledging that anything is possible and America’s best days may yet be behind us, Joffe is adept at explaining the intangible factors that will likely ensure America’s preeminence for ages to come.”
- James Kirchick, The Daily Beast

“Brave and bracing.”
- Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0871408465
• ISBN 13: 9780871408464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352