Ronald Wright - What is America?

America -- the world's only superpower, but how did it get there? In a provocative new book, Ronald Wright contends that right from its start as a frontier society, America has used militarism and religious extremism to expand and prosper. Wright is the bestselling author of "A Short History of Progress". His new book is called "What is America? A Short History of the New World Order".

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[DaktaBubbles]

a short history of progress is a painfully honest (allmost doomsdayish) book on the evolution and future of humanity. i loved its honesty and insight, i highly recomend.

[michaelkitselaar]

Wow, This guy is fantastic

[RoberTastic]

@niemand2099

despite firebombing dresden? The war was over and the battle changed to winning hearts and minds against communism

[Q8De]

@niemand2099 Ever heard of agent orange ?

[TheLogicJunkie]

So, America has really always just been a haven for the utmost strains of psychotically narcissistic brats the world over, who have no capacity to bear real humility or an awareness of their own monstrosity?

Makes sense to me.

[beargomtang]

I am reading "An illustrated short history of progress" by Ronald Wright. It is very intereting. This book provokes to think. The ideas her quite huge. And I am writting a blog about this book. If want to share your ideas, go to my blog. Check it and if there is any opinion please leave comment.

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[kizilbash110]

A couple years back his assessment might have seemed more accurate. But his attempt to pin so many of our American political issues on religious fundamentalism really comes up short. George W. Bush is the only openly fundamentalist president we've had in my lifetime, although various leaders have exploited religious terminology. Obama's foreign policy has not significantly departed from Bush's although the justifications have changed. Is Guantanamo closed? How did Copenhagen go?

[trillionare7]

"The world's only super power" is in the change of wind. It has always been in the history, it will always be. Change

[jeffersontool]

@gothgod VERY SAD!!!

[jeffersontool]

@gothgod Where did that come from? How did any of what I said lead you to say that? I am one of the most liberal, Glenn Beck-Hating, people you'll ever meet. Are you high?

[gothgod]

@jeffersontool And so you think the War against the indigenous people of the Americas was a lie - that the colonists didn't take part in massacres that massacres such as Wounded Knee and a hundred or a thousand others did not happen. And the US you think didn't take part in the slave trade. And of course you believe anyone believing in equality and economic justice is just a commie. A real American I guess are those who have bought into yours and Glenn Beck's revisionist history. Very Sad!!!

[niemand2099]

@simon I am German and born right around Nuremberg. I know how Germany was treated and that West Germany was saved by the US because the US is the most humaine and generous country in the world.