Afternoon on the Potamac?: A British View of America`s Changing Position in the World

by Roy Jenkins

In these three crisp lectures delivered at Yale at the end of 1971, Roy Jenkins traces America's rise to indisputable leadership among the great powers in the years 1917-63, interprets Britian's changing perspectives since the end of World War Il, and reflects on the problems now faced by the United States as it adjusts to a world role as first among equals.

66 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 1972

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Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PC was a Welsh politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he became the first (and so far only) British President of the European Commission (1977-81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies.

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The river in question is spelled "Potomac"