The Myth of America's Decline: Leading the World Economy Into the 1990s

by Henry R. Nau

Book Overview

America's power has declined since 1945, yet America's democratic purposes are more widely emulated in the world today than ever before, and economic growth and employment in the United States in the 1980s reached levels that rivaled the boom years of postwar prosperity from 1947-1967. Challenging the pessimists who focus only on the decline of American power, this book argues that outcomes depend much more on how America defines its political identity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195060016
• ISBN13: 9780195060010
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.6"