THE FRUGAL SUPERPOWER: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

摘要

Few Americans can imagine a world not dominated by American power and influence. For the past six-and-a-half decades, America's leadership—economic, military, cultural—has been so comprehensive that American exceptionalism is now the operating assumption of almost all living Americans. In his latest book, Michael Mandelbaum lays out the reasons for America's future decline: chronic deficit spending, the expense of aging baby boomers, our extravagant import-driven consumerism, our addiction to foreign oil, and, alas, the rise of China. But having made the case, Mandelbaum then disappoints the reader by failing to vividly describe the world—domestically or internationally—that will be created by America's imminent decline.