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Article: American might: Children of the 'huddled masses'
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Josef Joffe The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
05-10-2008
American might: Children of the 'huddled masses'
Byline: Josef Joffe The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES
The Post-American World
By Fareed Zakaria
292 pages. $25.95. W. W. Norton; pound(s)20. Allen Lane.
Reviewed by Josef Joffe
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Every 20 years or so, the end of America is nigh - ever since the 18th century when, in France, the Comte de Buffon fingered the country as a den of degeneracy while Abbe Raynal slammed its cultural poverty: America had not yet produced "one good poet, one able mathematician, one man of genius." In 1987, in his book "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," ...