A book festival in Vilnius ... Vance created a brand-new stereotype for America: not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American. Whatever illusions Europeans ever had ...

His call to action isn’t new; it goes back as far as Alice Amsden’s 2001 book, The Rise of “the Rest”: Challenges to the West from Late Industrializing ... is evident in the growing percentage of ...

Americans spent their money on cars, televisions and other modern appliance, Library of Congress At the end of World War II, American soldiers ... saw a remarkable rise in their spending power.

Americans spent their money on cars, televisions and other modern appliance, Library of Congress At the end of World War II, American soldiers ... saw a remarkable rise in their spending power.