Ever since its inception, the United States has been remaking the world in its image. Driven by relatively high economic growth rates, increasing predominance in its own hemisphere, and a peculiar knack for making useful innovations, the country has become not only powerful, but an object of emulation for many others. The expanding global influence of the United States was created not just by its own power in military and diplomatic terms, but by its economic, social, and cultural influence.
By the 20th century, the U.S. position in the world was unique. Not only was it powerful enough to act on its own inclinations, it was attractive and popular on a global scale in ways that many Americans have never fully understood.
Ever since its inception, the United States has been remaking the world in its image. Driven by relatively high economic growth rates, increasing predominance in its own hemisphere, and a peculiar knack for making useful innovations, the country has become not only powerful, but an object of emulation for many others. The expanding global influence of the United States was created not just by its own power in military and diplomatic terms, but by its economic, social, and cultural influence.
