{"product_id":"tomorrow-the-world-the-birth-of-us-global-supremacy-9780674271135","title":"Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearance...You really ought to read it...A tour de force...While Wertheim is not the first to expose isolationism as a carefully constructed myth, he does so with devastating effect.\" --Andrew J. Bacevich, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as an armed superpower--and never looked back. In \u003ci\u003eTomorrow, the World\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Wertheim traces America's transformation to World War II, right before the attack on Pearl Harbor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs late as 1940, the small coterie formulating U.S. foreign policy wanted British preeminence to continue. Axis conquests swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that America should extend its form of law and order across the globe, and back it at gunpoint. No one really favored \"isolationism\"--a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy to burnish their cause. We live, Wertheim warns, in the world these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned account that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, \u003ci\u003eTomorrow, the World\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today's endless wars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Its implications are invigorating...Wertheim opens space for Americans to reexamine their own history and ask themselves whether primacy has ever really met their interests.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For almost 80 years now, historians and diplomats have sought not only to describe America's swift advance to global primacy but also to explain it...Any writer wanting to make a novel contribution either has to have evidence for a new interpretation, or at least be making an older argument in some improved and eye-catching way. \u003ci\u003eTomorrow, the World\u003c\/i\u003e does both.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Paul Kennedy, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWertheim, Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Stephen Wertheim is Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs, Foreign Policy, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50679009607954,"sku":"9780674271135","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a348cdd8-7664-4570-bbce-dab86ef165ec.jpg?v=1737243496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tomorrow-the-world-the-birth-of-us-global-supremacy-9780674271135","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}