@bookstodon just finished Robert Kagan's The Jungle Grows Back, as an audiobook.
Well written, it presents the conventional view of post-WWII history, with America as The Essential Nation. All our interventions were well intentioned, though many of them were flawed. It doesn't go into, say, the CIA manipulation of the Italian election. It argues strongly for the need for continuing vigilance and the American role as ballast and keel for the liberal world order.
