Menu
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy)
Top of the pile
75
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
96/100Critics
37/100Scholars
93/100Author:
Robert Kagan
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
January 10, 2023
A history of America's rise to global superpower, from the Spanish-American War to World War II.
What The Reviewers Say
For Kagan, it is crucial to show that America’s early adventures abroad were not elite conspiracies, but moral undertakings with broad popular support.
In his judicious, vibrant The Ghost at the Feast... Robert Kagan excavates the transformational early decades of the 20th century and the nation's rocky emergence onto the global stage.
Where Kagan once insisted that neoconservatism was a birthright, now he wants to illuminate what goes wrong when Americans agonizingly give it up. Whatever his intentions, Kagan proves that interventionism is difficult to generate and sustain.
Where the author really begins to make his thesis for the book stand out is the analysis of the interwar years from 1919–1939.
