The Arrogance Of Power
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the height of America's military involvement in Vietnam, one of the most powerful voices in the United States Senate issued a searing indictment of his own nation's foreign policy — and changed the course of political debate forever. The Arrogance of Power, delivered first as a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins University in 1966, presents Senator J. William Fulbright's authoritative and unflinching critique of American imperialism, arguing that great nations are most dangerous not when they are weak, but when they are drunk on their own strength and convinced of their divine right to reshape the world in their image. Fulbright, as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, writes with the rare authority of an insider who had grown disillusioned with the machinery of power he helped operate. His prose is measured yet devastating, dissecting the mythology of American exceptionalism with the precision of a statesman and the moral clarity of a scholar. The book stands as a landmark text of 20th-century political thought, drawing on classical history, political philosophy, and cold hard diplomatic reality to argue that humility — not dominance — is the true mark of a great nation. Decades on, its central question remains hauntingly unresolved: can America resist the intoxicating temptation of empire?
Author: J. William Fulbright
Format: Hardback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the height of America's military involvement in Vietnam, one of the most powerful voices in the United States Senate issued a searing indictment of his own nation's foreign policy — and changed the course of political debate forever. The Arrogance of Power, delivered first as a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins University in 1966, presents Senator J. William Fulbright's authoritative and unflinching critique of American imperialism, arguing that great nations are most dangerous not when they are weak, but when they are drunk on their own strength and convinced of their divine right to reshape the world in their image. Fulbright, as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, writes with the rare authority of an insider who had grown disillusioned with the machinery of power he helped operate. His prose is measured yet devastating, dissecting the mythology of American exceptionalism with the precision of a statesman and the moral clarity of a scholar. The book stands as a landmark text of 20th-century political thought, drawing on classical history, political philosophy, and cold hard diplomatic reality to argue that humility — not dominance — is the true mark of a great nation. Decades on, its central question remains hauntingly unresolved: can America resist the intoxicating temptation of empire?