Volume 49, Number 18 · November 21, 2002
Tomorrow the World
By James Chace
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power
by Warren Zimmermann
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 562 pp., $30.00
Who can doubt that the United States is an imperial power? It is an informal one, to be sure, not colonial in the sense of using military forces and colonial administrators to run territory acquired by the imperial power but rather, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has observed, one 'richly equipped with imperial paraphernalia: troops, ships, planes, bases, proconsuls, local collaborators, all spread wide around the luckless planet.'[1]
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