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TOMORROW, THE WORLD TOMORROW, THE WORLD THE BIRTH OF U.S. GLOBAL SUPREMACY STEPHEN WERTHEIM THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MAS SA CHU SETTS LONDON, ENGLAND | 2020 Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca First printing Cover design: Jill Breitbarth Cover image: New York State W.P.A. Art project, courtesy of the Library of Congress 9780674250581 (EPUB) 9780674250598 (MOBI) 9780674250611 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Wertheim, Stephen, author. Title: Tomorrow, the world : the birth of U.S. global supremacy / Stephen Wertheim. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2020011114 | ISBN 9780674248663 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Internationalism. | United States—Foreign relations—1933–1945. | United States—Foreign relations. | United States—Military relations. Classification: LCC E744 .W5325 2020 | DDC 327.73—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020011114 To Kristen CONTENTS Introduction The Decision for Dominance 1 1 Internationalism before “Isolationism,” 1776–1940 15 2 World War for World Order, May– December 1940 47 3 The Americo- British New Order of 1941 80 4 Instrumental Internationalism, 1941–1943 115 5 The Debate That Wasn’t, 1942–1945 145 Conclusion A Distinctly American Internationalism 173 Notes 185 Sources 245 Acknowl edgments 253 Index 257 TOMORROW, THE WORLD
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