Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xii, 381, [7] p. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Critically acclaimed examination of America's recent history compares the American empire to great empires of the past and outlines a global policy that could resolve trade imbalances and end the dangerous drift toward economic and social disintegration. From Wikipedia: Walter Russell Mead (born 12 June 1952, Columbia, South Carolina) is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine. Until 2010, Mead was the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mead received his B.A. in English Literature from Yale University. He is an honors graduate of Groton School and Yale, where he received prizes for history and debate. In addition to his position at Bard, Mead currently teaches American foreign policy at Yale University. Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author.
Keywords: Democracy, Free Market, Averell Harriman, Henry Kissinger, Military Spending, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War
ISBN: 9780395429549
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