Hidden Power of the American Dream: Why Europe's Shaken Confidence in the United States Threatens the Future of U.S. Influence

Whether America in the 21st century is perceived across the Atlantic with deeply felt identification or disparaging distance has consequences that go well beyond understanding if speaking of "the West" still makes sense. In fact, this book argues that the answer to the question of where do we go from here now that the United States is indisputably the world's biggest power lies in whether non-Americans keep believing in the American dream. Only if that dream continues to be the root of Amer...