Summary Of The Short American Century A Postmortem

America, the ideal model of the world, brought a lot of attention to itself after the victory of World War II. This attention brought many great events to the nation of the free, but, it also brought a lot of terrible ones as well. The Short American Century: A Postmortem shows the unfolding of America after the Second World War and how its relations with the world corroded. Major incidents like the Cold War, isolationism, racism, mass production, and so forth. Power is something that does not last forever, for America, this is a fact that America cannot realize. Luce’s vision of an American Century explains the importance of internationalism over isolationism. He understood how powerful the United States is and that it should its power
Racism is one of the original roots there were embedded. Luce’s vision for an American Century is beneficial to the white skinned people and everyone else who is not white is inferior. The subject of race has always and will always be a subject of matter in America. Foreign nations looked down on America for its race problem and how the issue was dealt with. Therefore, prerequisites to the upcoming Cold War became a serious matter. America was decolonizing third world countries by offering support in return for permission to install embassies, airports, and stores where American products are brought and sold. The United States was seeking for defenseless countries to show off to other nations their “control” within these territories. With this in mind, America attempts to dominate were countries whose population was not majority white. Asia, Africa, and South America are all examples of this domination for power. With most of the decolonized attempts ending in failure, the idea of an American Century falls apart even
During the 1940’s, the qualifications to be a “man” was changing. The fearless and physically strong man was what was known as the ideal man. The nation saw intellectualism as unmanly. With this “unmanly intellectualism”, this affects militarism, greatly, and the home life as well. Society in the American Century and its beliefs for the manly man is foolish. For a man to be a hero does not require the killing of other people and the desire for militarism. Because a man does not want to fight in a war, it does not make a nation weaker. It shows diversity and creativity throughout a nation. Isolationism can make a nation into a joke for the whole world to laugh at. Imperialism makes a nation hated by other nations. Pragmatic Realism seems to be the perfect mixture of both isolationism and imperialism. It shows what action should be taken in order to end up with the most humane results. War and the spreading of democracy are seen in the American Century as the symbolic notion of “patriotic.” The lives that are lost during this war is seen as a sacrifice for