This American hegemony is all the more striking given how little the United States mattered to world politics over a century ago. For anyone seeking to understand how American predominance was achieved in the years after World War I, and why it catastrophically failed to keep the hard-won peace, Adam Tooze has written an essential book. Epic in scope, boldly argumentative, deftly interweaving military and economic narratives, “The Deluge” is splendid interpretive history....MORE