The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941

A comprehensive, sweeping history of America’s rise to global superpower—from the Spanish-American War to World War II—by the acclaimed author of Dangerous Nation


“With extraordinary range and research, Robert Kagan has illuminated America’s quest to reconcile its new power with its historical purpose in world order in the early twentieth century.” —Dr. Henry Kissinger

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was one of the world’s richest, most populous, most technologically a...