| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance. By Michael H. Hunt. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 404 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3090-1.)

Michael H. Hunt's The American Ascendancy is a masterly overview of America's rise to its current status as the sole superpower in a unipolar world. Given this outstanding book's breadth—both its temporal scope and the issues covered—a brief review cannot do it justice. The American Ascendancy is especially important because of Hunt's discussion of the United States' current foreign policy predicament. It is a welcome counterweight to the fashionable view that the George W. Bush administration has broken radically from America's twentieth-century foreign policy traditions.

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