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By Morris Berman

Why the US Failed exhibits how, from its start as a country of “hustlers” to its cave in as an empire, the instruments of the country’s growth proved to be the tools of its demise.

Why the US Failed is the 3rd and most attractive quantity of Morris Berman’s trilogy at the decline of the yank empire. In The Twilight of yankee Culture, Berman tested the inner components of that decline, displaying that they have been similar to these of Rome in its late-empire part. In Dark a while America, he explored the exterior factors—e.g., the truth that either empires have been eventually attacked from the outside—and the connection among the occasions of Sept. 11 and the background of U.S. international policy.

  • In his such a lot formidable paintings up to now, Berman appears on the “why” of all of it
  • Probes America’s dedication to financial liberalism and unfastened company stretching again to the overdue 16th century, and exhibits how this ideology, besides that of technological growth, rendered any replacement marginal to American historical past
  • Maintains, greater than the rest, that this one-sided imaginative and prescient of the country’s function eventually did our country in.

Why the United States Failed is a debatable paintings, one who will surprise, anger, and rework its readers. The e-book is a stimulating and provocative rationalization of ways we controlled to finish up in our present state of affairs: economically susceptible, politically passé, socially divided, and culturally adrift. it's a travel de strength, a strong end to Berman’s research of yank imperial decline.

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