The Rise and Decline of the American Century

In 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation's leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-II era proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Even so, Luce had articulated an animating idea that, as William O. Walker III skillfully shows in The Rise and Decline of the American Century , would guide United States foreign policy through the years of hot and cold war. The American Century was, Walker argues, the counter-balance to defensive