![]() Despite set-backs and the lengthy paralysis of the cold war, the US entered the new millennium as the unchallenged global superpower, following a record-breaking period of economic growth. Luce's famous observation, made at the darkest moment of the second world war, has proved correct. Sixty years ago, Henry Luce, the redoubtable publisher of Life magazine, argued that the 20th century would be seen by posterity as "the American century". ![]() The Oxford Companion to United States History The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its Peoples
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