The End of the American Empire

The Challenges and Choices Facing the United States in the Twenty-First Century - and the Positive Change Needed to Save It

De: Patrick Watts

Narrado por: Patrick Watts

"Empire" carries huge historical baggage, but America is undeniably an imperial superpower - and yet all empires must end. Whether the US collapses swiftly from internal and external pressures, or declines and dissolves more peacefully over several centuries, depends on what its citizens and leaders do today. The present moment has never been more perilous.

Written from a sympathetic and non-partisan perspective, this book addresses the current climate as the country gears up for the 2024 presidential election. It lays out the historical, political, socio-economic and geopolitical reasons why the American Empire might crumble sooner rather than later, with enormous domestic and global consequences, unless action is taken at every level.

Confronted by troubles at home and rivals abroad, America has its work cut out if it is to endure much longer. Its citizens deserve better - better institutions, greater social harmony, more reliable media, cleaner politicians - and the world yearns for more ethical leadership and less risk of catastrophic conflict.

The End of the American Empire examines all these topics with bracing honesty and compassionate concern, seeking to generate healthy debate and necessary change.

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Overall it was compelling and good

While I did not always agree with some of the portrayals of events, the book does make a compelling case that change is needed in the American empire, or like all empires before it, it is doomed. I am not as optimistic as the author nor do I believe that keeping the empire together is necessarily a must, especially for its own citizens. However the author was very convincing that the alternative, right now to the American empire, is far worse. Overall this is well worth a listen as it’s well researched and provides a cautionary tale that we heed or ignore at our own expense.

Leftist leaning book.

Provides a listing of real and purported problems we face as a Nation and then compares how our Nation functions to European nations having the "solutions" he presumably wants us to follow. Author repeatedly asserts our Nation is a democracy. It is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The author's fundamental misunderstanding on that basic point of government civics undermines his credibility. Wish I could get a refund.