879: 8/8 Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership, by Conrad Black
Image: The entrance to Pfizer World Headquarters at 235 East Forty-second Street in Manhattan, New York. Under the strict direction of the American president, Pfizer and other major pharmaceutical firms developed vaccines for the 2019 coronavirus in stunning, incomparably brief time. Flight of the Eagle: The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership,by Conrad Black Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries. Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, the American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation’s way to independence. With the first buds of public relation techniques—of communication, dramatization, and propaganda—America flourished into a vision of freedom, of enterprise, and of unalienable human rights. In Flight of the Eagle, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented. Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States from 1754-1992, Black describes nine “phases” of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of “Superpower.” Black discredits prevailing notions that our unrivaled status is the product of good geography, demographics, and good luck. Instead, he reveals and analyzes the specific strategic decisions of great statesmen through the ages that transformed the world as we know it and established America’s place in it. https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Eagle-Strategies-Dependence-Leadership/dp/159403673X .. .. .. Permissions The entrance to Pfizer World Headquarters in Manhattan, New York, New York. Photographed by user Coolcaesar on the morning of November 5, 2016. 5 November 2016, by Coolcaesar (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coolcaesar) I, Coolcaesar (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coolcaesar) , the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en) license. You are free:• to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work• to remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:• attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.