The American Way of Peace: An Interpretation

by Jan S. Prybyla

In The American Way of Peace, Jan S. Prybyla traces the implementation of an idea derived from bedrock American values that has shaped the American character from the nation s beginning. The idea... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826215955
• ISBN13: 9780826215956
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5

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In The American Way of Peace, Jan S. Prybyla traces the implementation of an idea derived from bedrock American values that has shaped the American character from the nation's beginning. The idea-simple, generous, optimistic, and effective-was and remains to give people realizable hope, an attainable dream, by creating a peaceful, secure, and materially comfortable world, a Pax Americana, the American Way of Peace. In the period surveyed, beginning with the end of World War II, this objective was achieved through American initiative and with American leadership, despite resistance from Nazi barbarism, Soviet serfdom, and, more recently, Islamic extremist inhumanity. There has also been opposition from some of those in the western confines of Europe whom Pax Americana helped raise from the ashes to which they had been reduced. The American Way of Peace examines the work of reconstruction, the enemy bombardment, as well as the hurtful sniping along the way by the beneficiaries of American support. Prybyla recommends a reevaluation of American relations with those to whom friendship is but a utilitarian device, in light of the present eruption of terrorism worldwide. The need for America to act wisely and resolutely in defense of civilized values, to stem the third tidal wave of terrorist savagery, and to venture where others fear to tread is more compelling now than it has been in the six decades past, for today America's very survival as a force for immense good in the world is being put to the test. About the Author Jan S. Prybyla is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pennsylvania State University, President of the Conference on European Problems, and Adjunct Faculty member of the Foreign Service Institute at the U. S. Department of State. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Market and Plan under Socialism: The Bird in the Cage and Reform in China and Other Socialist Economies.