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Article: Still on a mission.(God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World)(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- March 25, 2008
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World.
By Walter Russell Mead.
Knopf, 464 pp., $27.95.
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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD was an early advocate of expanding American power in the vacuum left by the end of the cold war, and he supported the Iraq War in 2003. But his work as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations defies easy classification as interventionist, neo-conservative or idealist. His 2005 book Power, Terror, Peace, and War tied the expansion of American power to a broader understanding of what that power is and how it works. At a time when politicians like to portray their ...