Afternoon on the Potamac?: A British View of Americas Changing Position in the World

by Roy Jenkins

In these three crisp lectures delivered at Yale at the end of 1971, Roy Jenkins traces America's rise to indisputable leadership among the great powers in the years 1917-63, interprets Britian's changing perspectives since the end of World War Il, and reflects on the problems now faced by the United States as it adjusts to a world role as first among equals.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300015860
• ISBN13: 9780300015867
• Release Date: September 1972
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 59 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"