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Advance praise: 'Essential reading for historians - and for historically-oriented policy advisors and officials. Sklar recapitulates, updates, and expands his earlier pathbreaking explorations of the American liberal society type and its influential role in the world. To previous conceptual innovations ('corporate liberalism', 'disaccumulation', 'capitalism-socialism mix'), Sklar adds 'transvestiture of left and right'.' Norton Wheeler, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Advance praise: 'In this provocative book, the late Martin J. Sklar urges us to put aside the simplistic debates over unilateral versus multilateral, realist versus idealist, isolationist versus globalist, and to recover the more subtle understandings of the 'founders' of US foreign policy who emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Far from a nation with a short-term memory, America, in Sklar's telling, pursued a consistent policy that at first sought a dominant world position so as to bring about decolonization and, later, a world without a dominant hegemon. Creating the American Century will challenge students of American foreign policy and those who wish to understand the US's role in the world today.' John Yoo, University of California, Berkeley

'Essential reading for historians - and for historically-oriented policy advisors and officials. Sklar recapitulates, updates, and expands his earlier pathbreaking explorations of the American liberal society type and its influential role in the world. To previous conceptual innovations ('corporate liberalism', 'disaccumulation', 'capitalism-socialism mix'), Sklar adds 'transvestiture of left and right'.' Norton Wheeler, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga 'In this provocative book, the late Martin J. Sklar urges us to put aside the simplistic debates over unilateral versus multilateral, realist versus idealist, isolationist versus globalist, and to recover the more subtle understandings of the 'founders' of US foreign policy who emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Far from a nation with a short-term memory, America, in Sklar's telling, pursued a consistent policy that at first sought a dominant world position so as to bring about decolonization and, later, a world without a dominant hegemon. Creating the American Century will challenge students of American foreign policy and those who wish to understand the US's role in the world today.' John Yoo, University of California, Berkeley

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Martin J. Skar (1935-2014) was an American historian best known for originating the concepts of corporate liberalism, the disaccumulation of capital, and the capitalist-socialist mix. His books include The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law and Politics (Cambridge, 1988) and The United States as a Developing Country: Studies in U.S. History in the Progressive Era and the 1920s (Cambridge, 1992). Sklar was the founding editor of several journals and a former Professor of History at Bucknell University.

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