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The Price of America's Empire
by Niall Ferguson
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Published Aug 2010
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by Naomi Klein
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by Robert Kagan
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by Thomas E. Ricks
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by Peter W. Galbraith
Published Jun 2007
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by Glenn Greenwald
Published May 2006
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by Thomas Friedman
Published Apr 2000
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by Jared Diamond
Published Apr 1999
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by Samuel P. Huntington
Published Jun 1998
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