America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

by Claes G . Ryn (Author)

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  2010

  $71.21

  Urged on by politicians and intellectuals, George Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. In his view, American values and principles were universal, and should guide a remaking of the world. The author describes the drive for empire as part of a larger ideological whole, one both expressing and aggravating a crisis of democracy.