Edition: 2005
Pages: 600
Series: CS
ISBN: 9788842077138

Americas Europe. From the Founding Fathers to Roosevelt

Massimo L. Salvadori

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Between the end of the seventeenth century and mid nineteenth century the star of the USA continued to rise while Europe began a journey destined to end in destruction. From the Founding Fathers to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Salvadori retraces the ways in which the political culture of the New World, expressed by Presidents, politicians and intellectuals, saw and judged the Old Continent. What clearly emerges is that Americans, bar a few exceptions, built and developed their own national identity in terms of a growing sense of superiority to Europe - rejecting what they saw as its 'ills' and 'vices' - and embracing, instead, the desire to 'redeem Europe' and ultimately be its guide.

The author

Massimo L. Salvadori

Massimo L. Salvadori is professor emeritus at the University of Turin. He was visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard Universities. He is also a regular contributor to the Italian daily La Repubblica. Several of his books have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. Most recently, he published The Idea of Progress. Can we do without it? (Rome 2006) and Divided Italy. The tormented conscience of a nation (Rome 2007). With Laterza, amongst other works, he is the author of: The Socialist Opportunity in the Age of Globalisation (2001); The Left in Italian History (2001³); The Anxieties of the Omnipotent Man (2003);The Americans’ Europe. From the founding fathers to Roosevelt (2005); The Twentieth Century. An introduction (2010⁵); Democracies Without Democracy (2011³).