"For Americans, a startling new perspective: in language that clarifies our highly complex economic system, it tells us what we are, how we got that way, and what others think about us. For Europeans, a call to action." "This tremendous and perhaps unmanageable thrust toward an American imperialism, both in Europe and in the underdeveloped world, is the real problem that emerges from Servan-Schreiber's stunning description of the American economic drive. In the end the American challenge is that of a society caught in the grip of a momentum over which there exists no adequate social control. Whether such a control can be forged may determine whether, as Servan-Schreiber warns, America's economic leadership will some day prove to be 'dangerous for America and disastrous for the world.'"
