false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172420494m/173744.jpg 173744 7 Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of America's foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American power&#151;military, economic, cultural, and political. The result is a book whose conclusions are as convincing, and troubling, as they are original. Ferguson demonstrates that America has always been an empire in denial and shows the fateful consequences of its special brand of imperialism. He examines the challenges to the United States from its principal rivals, the European Union and China, and offers a compelling analysis of the connection between the country's domestic economic health and its foreign affairs&#151;the bottom line of imperialism, American style. <I>Colossus</I> is a peerless reckoning with American power that should be read by any thinking citizen of this unspoken empire. 539682 2005 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire total:218|5:33|4:72|3:83|2:26|1:4| 218 758 393 39 2 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jun 08 16:14:16 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 16:15:53 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jun 20 14:09:57 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 14:21:45 -0700 2007
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In too many cases what he said just didn't jib with what I'd learned from many other sources, and I didn't think his spin was likely correct.

I read the first 100 pages and gave it up.
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