A Sense of Power: The Roots of America's Global Role

by John A. Thompson

Book Overview

Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this question are "because it could" and "because it had to." Neither answer will do, according to this challenging re-assessment of the way that America came to assume its global role. The country's vast economic resources gave it the capacity to exercise great influence abroad, but Americans were long reluctant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447895
• ISBN13: 9780801447891
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher