A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

Even in these dismal times genuinely important books do occasionally make their appearanceYou really ought to read itA tour de forceWhile Wertheim is not the first to expose isolationism as a carefully constructed myth, he does so with devastating effect.
Andrew J. Bacevich, The Nation

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as an armed superpowerand never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces Americas transformation to World War II, right before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

As late as 1940, the small coterie formulating U.S. foreign policy wanted British preeminence to continue. Axis conquests swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that America should extend its form of law and order across the globe, and back it at gunpoint. No one really favored isolationisma term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy to burnish their cause. We live, Wertheim warns, in the world these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned account that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to todays endless wars.

Its implications are invigoratingWertheim opens space for Americans to reexamine their own history and ask themselves whether primacy has ever really met their interests.
New Republic

For almost 80 years now, historians and diplomats have sought not only to describe Americas swift advance to global primacy but also to explain itAny writer wanting to make a novel contribution either has to have evidence for a new interpretation, or at least be making an older argument in some improved and eye-catching way. Tomorrow, the World does both.
Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal

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