How is it possible to be so wrong ? That is the question which is growing in the reader's mind when looking over this book. According to Edward Luttwak, America was in the Nineties, on the verge of a final crisis which would have to precipitate it in the abyss of the Third World. Very amazing when so much people everywhere complain about its extreme domination. Today, despite dark clouds, nothing is allowing us to think that the spirit of America is lost. I hope that, unlike the Luttwak's prediction, american people is still believing in the ideas of the " Founding Fathers ", and in the triumph of the democracy. To this condition the USA will still be able to enlighten the world for a long time.