The American trajectory : divine or demonic? /
Traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. This book demonstrates the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided. The American Trajectory contains ma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Atlanta :
Clarity Press, Inc.,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Traces the trajectory of the American Empire from its founding through to the end of the 20th century. This book demonstrates the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided. The American Trajectory contains many episodes that many readers will find surprising. That the sinking of the Lusitania was anticipated, both by Churchill and Wilson, as a means of inducing America's entry into World War I, that the attack on Pearl Harbor was neither unprovoked nor a surprise, that during the "Good War," the U.S. government plotted and played politics with a view to becoming the dominant empire, that there was no need to drop atomic bombs on Japan either to win the war or to save American lives, that U.S. decisions were central to the inability of the League of Nations and the United Nations to prevent war, that the United States was more responsible than the Soviet Union for the Cold War, that the Vietnam War was far from the only U.S. military adventure during the Cold War that killed great numbers of civilians, that the U.S. government organized false flag attacks that deliberately killed Europeans and that America's military interventions after the dissolution of the Soviet Union taught some conservatives (such as Andrew Bacevich and Chalmers Johnson) that the U.S. interventions during the Cold War were not primarily defensive. The conclusion deals with the question of how knowledge by citizens of how the American Empire has behaved could make America better and how America, which had long thought of itself as the Redeemer Nation, might redeem itself. |
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| Physical Description: | 409 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780998694795 0998694797 |