A few years ago, I was in a bookstore to buy something else, but happened to glance at the “current titles” table and noticed a book with a title that referred to something like the “late, great America”. I think it was about what the world would be like when America is gone. I think the idea is that all civilizations, dynasties, empires, etc., rise, flourish, reach their peak, then decline, fall and disappear. The question is, is America already in the “decline” part of this cycle and we don’t know it? And what would it be like when America is gone?

I was in a hurry that day and did not stop to write down the exact title of the book or its author. I went back to the bookstore a few months later and could not find the book. A search of Amazon did not turn up anything quite like it, either. So, jellies, do you know the name of the book? Better yet, if you’ve read it, what do you think of it?

Topics: politics, economics, books, America, civilizations