In this incisive new book, Michael Mandelbaum argues that the era marked by an expansive American foreign policy is coming to an end. During the seven decades from the U.S. entry into World War II in 1941 to the present, economic constraints rarely limited what the United States did in the world. Now that will change. The country's soaring deficits, fueled by the huge costs of the financial crash and of its entitlement programs-Social Security and...

Conservative television and radio personality Glenn Beck takes listeners on a ride through 234 years of American history, starting with the American Revolution and ending with the 2008 recession. Here, Beck reveals how America has arrived at its current miserable state, exposing exactly where, when, and how the cracks formed in the American system.