{"product_id":"why-america-failed-the-roots-of-imperial-decline","title":"Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy America Failed shows how  from its birth as a nation of \"hustlers\" to its collapse as an empire  the tools of the countrys expansion proved to be the instruments of its demise Why America Failed is the third and most engaging volume of Morris Bermans trilogy on the decline of the American empire. In The Twilight of American Culture  Berman examined the internal factors of that decline  showing that they were identical to those of Rome in its late-empire phase. In Dark Ages America  he explored the external factorse.g.  the fact that both empires were ultimately attacked from the outsideand the relationship between the events of 9\/11 and the history of U.S. foreign policy. In his most ambitious work to date  Berman looks at the \"why\" of it all Probes Americas commitment to economic liberalism and free enterprise stretching back to the late sixteenth century  and shows how this ideology  along with that of technological progress  rendered any alternative marginal to American history Maintains  more than anything else  that this one-sided vision of the countrys purpose finally did our nation in Why America Failed is a controversial work  one that will shock  anger  and transform its readers. The book is a stimulating and provocative explanation of how we managed to wind up in our current situation: economically weak  politically passe  socially divided  and culturally adrift. It is a tour de force  a powerful conclusion to Bermans study of American imperial decline.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963305717813,"sku":"ByrdShop_1118061810","price":28.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781118061817.jpg?v=1770411406","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/why-america-failed-the-roots-of-imperial-decline","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}