
Hence it was bound to happen and he introduces us to George Kennan (the first, before George Frost Kennan) who marked this evolving reality. And so, already by 1917 the US were eying Russia and after the revolution, the USSR. The US were also weary entering the Great War, feeling that it was not in their interest to 'save the British Empire'. Inevitably, though opposed to the idea of Empire, the US became one. And so did the USSR and Hitler gambled on the polarity between the two. Yet they teamed up to bring the Third Reich down and only then the true duality came to dominate the world. Until 1989.
More Gilder Lehrmann:
A plea for integrated historiography (Thomas Bender),
The Cuban Missile Crisis (Sergei Khrushchev),
African American generations (Ira Berlin),
Theodore Roosevelt (Patrica O'Toole),
Slave Culture (Philip Morgan).