This book could help save the United States.

A half century ago, the Anglo-American Establishment reversed the policies that made America rich, powerful, and humane.

Chaitkin takes you behind the scenes, to see the two sides struggling to control American policy: nationalist statesmen and industrial innovators, versus the British empire, Wall Street and the southern slaveowners.

He argues that a profound sense of mission of the United States is urgently needed now if it is to become again a blessing to the world, and not a menace.