Summary: Excerpts from a book by Sidney Lens entitled, The Forging of the American Empire - From the Revolution to Vietnam: A History of U.S. Imperialism, written in 1971. Politicians spoke more freely and honestly in earlier times about the aims and designs of the United States. It is interesting to confirm what a fearfully pugnacious country America really is according to freely expressed traditional attitudes. War seems to be the backbone of the raison d’être of the country. Nothing whatever has changed for the better in that regard. Increased life expectancy, particularly as pertains to women, is perhaps one of the most important of all changes to human life in the past two centuries.
