Name: The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies
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Author: Josef Joffe
ISBN: 9780871408464

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The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies

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Physical Book

Publisher

Liveright

Author

Josef Joffe

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780871408464

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Synopsis "The Myth of America's Decline: Politics, Economics, and a Half Century of False Prophecies "

America-bashing predates America: French Enlightenment philosophies claimed that the colony was doomed and one critic reported that the colony's population was "astonishingly idiotic [and] enervated". As the United States became a superpower after the Second World War, a more virulent, politically charged form of declinism emerged amid hysteria that "the Russians are coming". It was followed by the European miracle, Japan's "Rising Sun" and now the looming Chinese behemoth. While declinism may delight the media and gloating Europeans eager to play up America's "has-been" status, the facts do not corroborate the contentions, as Josef Joffe demonstrates in this history of American declinism. He offers a highly provocative examination of how the US, for all its failings, continues to be a force of rejuvenation today.

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