Atlantic Empires

The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo- America, by Kevin Phillips (Basic, 707 pp., $30)

AS the beginning of the third millennium approaches, the hegemony of Anglo-American culture for the moment faces no challenge. As a result of the global conflicts of the twentieth century, the United States has replaced the British Empire as the leading global military, industrial, and financial power, and English is the lingua franca of elites across the planet. The Cousins’ Wars is, in the words of its author, “a book about how three great internal wars seeded each other and, in so doing, guided not only politics but the rise of Anglo-America from a small Tudor kingdom to a global community and world hegemony.”

The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo- America, by Kevin Phillips (Basic, 707 pp., $30)

AS the beginning of the third millennium approaches, the hegemony of Anglo-American culture for the moment faces no challenge. As a result of the global conflicts of the twentieth century, the United States has replaced the British Empire as the leading global military, industrial, and financial power, and English is the lingua franca of elites across the planet. The Cousins’ Wars is, in the words of its author, “a book about how three great internal wars seeded each other and, in so doing, guided not only politics but the rise of Anglo-America from a small Tudor kingdom to a global community and world hegemony.”

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About the Author

Michael Lind

Mr. Lind is a visiting professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The American Way of Strategy.