In other words, once our leadership gains office, then whatever was said goes the way of special interest, because the interest of the greater society becomes lost in the quest of self-interest. We are perhaps for the first time in our nation's history attempting to understand our own path to the power we are perceived by the rest of the world as having. In fact, as Harvey so succinctly demonstrates in his discussion on the political maneuvering, because America could not have by any stretch of the imagination have accomplished its present act upon the world stage without a supporting cast of world players (28). When they built America up for purposes of pursuing their own self-interest, then their support of America quickly began deteriorating, disintegrating to a lack of control of their own political forces, economies, and even inability to mobilize their human resources as they would have previously had the power to do.

The motivations and interests of agents will differ (27)," Harvey suggests in what is a very familiar way. Harvey has intelligently and convincingly made his study of America's path to power, and found that the path was neither the short road, nor a lonely one, but one that was thwart with the pot holes along the path as we are now discovering in our shared world economic crisis. The geography that Harvey talks about that causes the capital accumulation more...

Suddenly the reader realizes that Americans were not really the powerful force that they had perceived themselves to be, but the front man in a greater play of combined agendas. Only for a moment did America's agenda stand independent of the other players, who became panicked when George Bush, less savvy than his American electorate, exposed himself and America as the front man in what is quickly turning out to be a very bad manipulation of a nation.
Harvey asks an interesting question: "Does the U.S. have the power to reverse or control such regional fragmentation (31)." This is the question that remains unanswered as Americans scramble to regain their footing. Whether or not the newly elected Barack Obama will manifest the hope and strength that underlies the crisis in America now is yet to be determined.

Works Cited

Harvey, David. The New Imperialism, Oxford University Press,…