On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:22:24 +0000, James Nicoll wrote:
The Wrong End of Time by John Brunner
Can the United States of America save the world from the United States
of America?
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/bomb
This sounds like a long way from the 1890s to about 1912. In 1902
the talk of the intelligencia was a book by journalist W.T. Stead titled
"The Americanization of the World." Stead and his pals Cecil Rhodes
and Andrew Carnegie had a vision of a revived empire consisting
of all the English-speaking nations. Rhodes even conceded that the
republican form of government was the future and that if the
monarchy must go, then so be it. Stead went down with the Titanic
and maybe that vision went with him.
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