Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire
history of America’s foreign entanglements and delves into all the
dimensions of American power—military, economic, cultural, and
political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as
convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson
demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and
shows the fateful consequences of its special brand of imperialism.
He examines the challenges to the United States from its principal
rivals, the European Union and China, and offers a compelling
analysis of the connection between the country’s domestic economic
health and its foreign affairs—the bottom line of imperialism,
American style. Colossus is a peerless reckoning with
American power that should be read by any thinking citizen of this
unspoken empire.
關於作者:
Niall Ferguson is professor of history at Harvard University,
senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and senior fellow
of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His previous books
include The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, The
Cash Nexus, and Empire.