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Peter Conrad

Biography

Peter Conrad

Peter Conrad is the author of over twenty books, including CREATION and VERDI AND/OR WAGNER.

Peter Conrad

Books by Peter Conrad

by Peter Conrad - History, Nonfiction

On the day after 9/11, foreign newspapers ran headlines announcing “We Are All Americans Now.” Though the sentiment was not new, it was also not quite the same as when Henry Luce announced in 1941, the inauguration of what he called “the American Century,” during which the US was to raise all men “from the level of the beasts to what the Psalmist calls a little lower than angels.” When America suddenly emerged as a global power in the postwar period, the world --- with pockets of resistance from France, Russia, and Japan in particular --- was happy to be remade in the US image. Fast forward to today and the Chinese state news agency Xinhua, days before a possible financial default by the US government, calling for a de-Americanized world.