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Flight of the eagle : the grand strategies that brought America from colonial dependence to world leadership
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Black describes nine "phases" of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of "Superp...
Black describes nine "phases" of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of "Superpower." He discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America's place in it.
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- Creator
- Conrad Black
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First American edition
- New York : Encounter Books, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 746 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781594036736, 159403673X, 9781594036743
- OCLC
- ocn809615512
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The aspirant state, 1754-1833 -- The British and Americans defeat the French in America, 1754-1774 -- The Americans and French defeat the British in America, 1774-1789 -- Launching the new republic in the world, 1789-1809 -- America, master of the hemisphere, 1809-1833 -- The predestined people, 1833-1917 -- The house divided, 1833-1854 -- The agony of the American union, 1854-1865 -- The new birth of freedom, 1865-1898 -- A new great power in the world, 1898-1917 -- The indispensable country, 1917-1951 -- The crisis of democracy: war, isolationism, and depression, 1917-1933 -- Toward America's rendezvous with destiny, 1933-1941 -- The victory of democracy, 1941-1944 -- From world war to cold war, 1945-1951 -- The supreme nation, 1951-1992 -- The red scare and the free world, 1951-1957 -- Peace and prosperity, 1957-1965 -- Vietnam and détente, the beginning of the end of the cold war, 1965-1973 -- To the summit of the world, 1973-1992 -- Epilogue : Waiting for the future, 1992-2011