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　　Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire

history of America’s foreign entanglements and delves into all the

dimensions of American power—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—the bottom line of imperialism,

American style. Colossus is a peerless reckoning with

American power that should be read by any thinking citizen of this

unspoken empire.

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　　Niall Ferguson is professor of history at Harvard University,

senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and senior fellow

of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His previous books

include The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, The

Cash Nexus, and Empire.

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Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of Americas foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American powermilitary, 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 countrys domestic economic health and its foreign affairsthe bottom line of imperialism, American style. Colossus is a peerless reckoning with American power that should be read by any thinking citizen of this unspoken empire.