Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Nikhil Pal Singh is Visiting Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History Director of the Program in American Studies at New York University. Eugene McCarraher is Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University and the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. He has written for Dissent and The Nation and contributes regularly to Commonweal, The Hedgehog Review, and Raritan. His work on The Enchantments of Mammon was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Declining empires are dangerous. Popular enlightenment is urgent, and this book…will help… It is a valuable step toward the self-knowledge Americans will need if we and the rest of the world are to survive the long centuries ahead.

Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Nikhil Pal Singh is Visiting Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History Director of the Program in American Studies at New York University. Eugene McCarraher is Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University and the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. He has written for Dissent and The Nation and contributes regularly to Commonweal, The Hedgehog Review, and Raritan. His work on The Enchantments of Mammon was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Declining empires are dangerous. Popular enlightenment is urgent, and this book…will help… It is a valuable step toward the self-knowledge Americans will need if we and the rest of the world are to survive the long centuries ahead.

Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Nikhil Pal Singh is Visiting Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History Director of the Program in American Studies at New York University. Eugene McCarraher is Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University and the author of Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought. He has written for Dissent and The Nation and contributes regularly to Commonweal, The Hedgehog Review, and Raritan. His work on The Enchantments of Mammon was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Declining empires are dangerous. Popular enlightenment is urgent, and this book…will help… It is a valuable step toward the self-knowledge Americans will need if we and the rest of the world are to survive the long centuries ahead.