A Pre-Leninist Theory of American Imperialism

This is an important, and, in a way, a moving book. Professor Williams is well-known as the author of three hard-hitting works: The Shaping of American Diplomacy, The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, and The Contours of American History, which defined and attacked
American imperialism. He is also a socialist who has angered Marxist orthodoxy by his essay The Great Evasion: On the Contemporary Relevance of Karl Marx. His roots, as he says, are in the agr...