

America in Retreat
The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19
Author: Michael Pembroke
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/09/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Modern History, Political Science, American Government
Synopsis
This book is a short history of that decline; how high standards and treasured principles were ignored; how idealism was replaced by hubris and moral compromise; and how adherence to the rule of law became selective. It is also a look into the future—a future dominated by greater Asia and China in particular. We are in the midst of the third great power shift in modern history—from Europe to America to Asia.
Covering wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, interventions in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, and a retreat from international engagement with the UN, WHO and, increasingly, trade agreements, Pembroke sketches the history of America's retreat from universal principles to provide a clear-eyed analysis of the dangers of American exceptionalism.