Colossus

The Price of America's Empire

by

Hardcover, 400 pages

English language

Published April 22, 2004 by Penguin Press HC, The.

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2 stars (1 review)

Argues that the United States is both economically and militarily the most powerful empire in history and will feel negative consequences as a result of imposing unrealistic timescales on interventions abroad.

6 editions

reviewed Colossus by Niall Ferguson

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2 stars

α - Picked this up after looking for a Noam Chomsky book in the library and failing to find it. Title sounded interesting.

Ω - I read the introduction and conclusion. The author reads like a bad pop song - not really saying anything useful, but name dropping all the cool kids from Lennon to the Terminator. America is an empire. No shit. America has a short attention span. No shit. Not finishing things you start leave wounds open to fester. No shit.

Subjects

  • American history
  • POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
  • Politics/International Relations
  • Imperialism
  • Colonies And Colonization
  • U.S. Foreign Relations
  • United States
  • Political Science
  • Politics / Current Events
  • USA
  • International Relations - General
  • Economic Conditions
  • Government - U.S. Government
  • Political Science / Economic Conditions
  • 2001-
  • 20th century
  • Foreign relations
  • Philosophy