![]() ![]() Epic in scope, boldly argumentative, deftly interweaving military and economic narratives, “The Deluge” is splendid interpretive history. For anyone seeking to understand how American predominance was achieved in the years after World War I, and why it catastrophically failed to keep the hard-won peace, Adam Tooze has written an essential book. This American hegemony is all the more striking given how little the United States mattered to world politics over a century ago. The supremacy of the American colossus is still so imposing, it leaves former rivals scrambling for labels beyond “superpower”: The former French foreign minister Hubert Védrine called the United States the hyperpuissance, while for the German commentator Josef Joffe, it was the überpower. ![]() The defining political fact of the modern world is American power. ![]()
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