FROM WEALTH TO POWER

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. first edition,1p; 10987654321pt line. Hardcover. 9.3 X 6.2 X 0.9 inches. GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE) DUST JACKET..SEVERAL LIBRARY STAMPS ON VERY NICE COPY. VERY NICE DUST JACKET..BOOK HAS MINOR SIGNS OF USE. ; DJ COVER ART SHOWS WHITE TITLES ON BRIGHT RED DUST JACKET, WITH A B&W UNCLE SAM LOOKING DOWN OOON A LARGE GLOBE. IT DOES NOT HAVE TEDDY ROOSEVELT PHOTO. ; 216 pages; managing editor of Foreign Affairs, tries to understand why the United States decided in 1898 that it was time to start acting like a world power. His answer lies in the transference of the government's main power from Congress, which was concerned primarily with the needs of its individual constituencies, to a presidency occupied by dynamic leaders such as Benjamin Harrison and Theodore Roosevelt, .