{"product_id":"blessed-among-nations-how-the-world-made-america-9780809030477","title":"Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America","description":"\u003cp\u003eNineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional. On the back of European money and immigration, America became an empire with considerable skill at conquest but little experience administering other people's, or its own, affairs, which it preferred to leave to the energies of private enterprise. The nation's resulting state institutions and traditions left America immune to the trends of national development and ever after unable to persuade other peoples to follow its example. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this concise, argumentative book, Eric Rauchway traces how, from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, the world allowed the United States to become unique and the consequent dangers we face to this very day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Rauchway\u003c\/b\u003e has written for the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at the University of California, Davis, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eMurdering McKinley: The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaking of Theodore Roosevelt's America \u003c\/i\u003e(H\u0026amp;W, 2003).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hill \u0026 Wang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967104745746,"sku":"9780809030477","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_98b6f802-0b0a-4164-9633-da8363838bc6.jpg?v=1768925727","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/blessed-among-nations-how-the-world-made-america-9780809030477","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}