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"An unblinkered look at our imperial past . . . a perceptive work by one of our most perceptive historians."—Studs Terkel
A work of remarkable prescience, Empire As A Way of Life is influential historian William Appleman Williams's groundbreaking work highlighting imperialism—"empire as a way of life"—as the dominant theme in American history. Analyzing U.S. history from its revolutionary origins to the dawn of the Reagan era, Williams shows how America has always been addicted to empire in its foreign and domestic ideology. Detailing the imperial actions and beliefs of revered figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this book is the most in-depth historical study of the American obsession with empire, and is essential to understanding the origins of our current foreign and domestic undertakings.
Back in print for the first time in twenty-five years, this new edition features an introduction by Andrew Bacevich, author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy.
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Joseph Simonetti
reviewed Empire As A Way of Life on February 23, 2013
Empire As A Way of Life
Williams' final work predates and presages Zinn by several years. Like the latter's A People's History, he reduces American history to its rawest elements: imperialism and expansionism as drives for economic and social control over increasingly abstracted spheres (first, western land; later, international capitalist markets). As a scholarly work of history, this is not the Williams you want; his earlier work is for that (though, frankly, this is more readable). As a blazing political polemic, though, it's totally awesome.
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