Lloyd C. Gardner is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Long Road to Baghdad, Three Kings, The Road to Tahrir Square, and Killing Machine, and a co-editor, with Marilyn B. Young, of The New American Empire and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, all published by The New Press. He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.Marilyn B. Young is a professor of history at New York University. She is a co-editor (with Lloyd C. Gardner) of The New American Empire: A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past and (with Yuki Tanaka) of Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History, all published by The New Press. She lives in New York City.

• Preface: Charles Maier, "An American Empire" (Harvard University); Chapter One: Lloyd Gardner, "Present at the Culmination" (Rutgers University); Chapter Two: Thomas McCormick, "American Hegemony and European Autonomy" (University of Wisconsin, Madison); Chapter Three: Mary Nolan, "Anti-Americanism and Anti-Europeanism" (New York University); Chapter Four: Greg Grandin, "Iraq is not Arabic for Nicaragua" (New York University); Chapter Five: John Prados, "The Drums of War" (National Security Archives); Chapter Six: Marilyn Young, "Permanent War" (New York University); Chapter Seven: Michael Adas, "Improving the Civilizing Mission" (Rutgers University); Chapter Eight: John Dower, "Occupation: A Warning From History" (M.I.T.); Chapter Nine: Carol Gluck, "Japan and the United States in Re-Imperial Times" (Columbia University); Chapter Ten: Edward Rhodes, "Onward, Liberal Soldiers?" (Rutgers University); Chapter Eleven: Anders Stephanson, "A Most Interesting Empire" (Columbia University)