{"product_id":"9780141017006-colossus","title":"Colossus","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the American Empire\u003cbr\u003eIs America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, this book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. This title reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by chronic defecits of money, manpower and political will.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may  have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book  shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time.  What's more, it always has been an empire, expanding westwards  throughout the nineteenth century and rising to global dominance in the  twentieth. But is today's American colossus really equipped to play  Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? The United  States, Ferguson reveals, is an empire running on empty, weakened by  chronic defecits of money, manpower and political will. When the New  Rome falls, he warns, its collapse may come from within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the timeliest and most topical books to have appeared in recent years'  \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Yet  another tour de force from a writer who displays all his usual gifts of  forceful polemic, unconventional intelligence and elegant prose .  guaranteed to spark fierce debate'  \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A bravura  exploration of why Americans are not cut out to be imperialists but  nonetheless have an empire. Vigorous, substantive, and worrying'   Timothy Garton Ash\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30350670200929,"sku":"9780141017006","price":9.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32415381.jpg?v=1737274550","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141017006-colossus","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}