A cautionary assessment of how the author believes America is straying from its democratic ideals and faltering in a rapidly globalized world community challenges policies that are based on a priority of making America "number one" in the world while examining the economic and political forces that have brought about contemporary problems. 40,000 first printing.
WILLIAM GREIDER is the best-selling author of five previous books, including One World, Ready or Not; Who Will Tell the People; and Secrets of the Temple. He has written for the Washington Post and Rolling Stone and has been an on-air correspondent for six Frontline documentaries on PBS. Currently the national affairs correspondent for The Nation, he lives in Washington, D.C.