TY - JOUR
AU - Smith, Gaddis
AB - The Journal of American History 306 June 1998 ally seem a bit forced, including his assertion ism during World War II and its immediate that John F. Kennedy's election victory rested aftermath. But then the United States neglected in part upon Dooley's ability in the late 1950s ideals and sought security through military to transform Protestant America's attitudes power, plunging into the Vietnam War. The consensus collapsed in spite of or even because toward Catholicism, his exhaustivelyresearched and meticulously argued study serves as a model of the efforts of Lyndon B. johnson and his for reclaiming the all too often ignored inter­ advisersto maintain it through exhortation and section between the cultures of the Cold War denigration of the critics. The book moves on at home and abroad. to an anthology of more recent doomsaying, a portrait of a self-destructive,disunified, failed Mark Bradley nation, of a feeble economy overpowered by University of Chicago japan, and of ecological disaster. "The toll of Chicago, Illinois time and abuse on the continent were symp­ tomatic of the ravagesof decay," White writes. The subtitle is somewhat misleading. White The American Century: The Rise and Decline is exploring power not as applied in concrete 
TI - The American Century: The Rise and Decline of the United States as a World Power. By Donald W. White. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xii, 551 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-300-05721-0)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2568570
DA - 1998-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-american-century-the-rise-and-decline-of-the-united-states-as-a-7u8I0aJo0R
SP - 306
EP - 307
VL - 85
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -