Morris Morley is a lecturer in Politics at Macquarie University. James Petras is a Professor of Sociology at the University Center at Binghamton.

"An important, well-researched critique of the new order at home and abroad. This book makes a complex subject accessible and interesting." -- Michael Parenti, author of The Sword and the Dollar, Democracy for the Few and Land of Idols

• Chapter 1 Reviving the World of the 1950s? The U.S. and Ascending Global Power in the 1990s; Chapter 2 The Decline of U.S. Economic Power at Home and Abroad; Chapter 3 External Expansion and Internal Decay; Chapter 4 Epilogue; Conclusion;