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Bennett reviews five books: Free World: America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the West by Timothy Garton Ash; The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas P. M. Barnett; The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union by Christopher Booker and Richard North; Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality by Olaf Gersemann; and The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing The American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin.

America's greatest days are yet to come. We are in a painful transition period. Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not work and it cannot continue as it is. But the inevitable end of big government does not mean the end of America. It only means the end of one phase of American life. America is poised to enter a new era of freedom and prosperity. The cultural roots of the American people go back at least fifteen centuries, and make us individualistic, enterprising, and liberty-loving. The Fou