In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power Audiobook

Quotes

• “This provocative study…is history with profound relevance to events that are unfolding before our eyes.”

  — Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times bestselling author

• “McCoy’s detailed, panoramic analysis of the past, present, and future of the American empire covers all spheres of activity…and seasons all of this with some fascinating personal vignettes.”

  — John Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

• "The case that Alfred McCoy makes—that much of America’s decline is due to its own contradictions and failures—is a sad one. He provides a glimmer of hope that America can ease into the role of a more generous, more collaborative, if less powerful, world player.”

  — Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

• “Provides an autopsy on a dying empire….Scenarios relayed by McCoy in dark terms could in turn provide positive opportunities for societal change as the necessity for constant war is removed.”

  — Progressive

• “[A] brilliant and deeply informed must-read for anyone seriously interested in geopolitics, the history of Empire, and the shape of the future.”

  — New York Journal of Books

• “Sobering reading for geopolitics mavens and Risk aficionados alike.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “A meticulous, eye-opening account of the rise, since 1945, and impending premature demise of the American Century of world domination.”

  — Ann Jones, author of They Were Soldiers