In a review of U.S. relations with the Third World since World War II, the

In a review of U.S. relations with the Third World since World War II, the author, a former ambasador and State Department official, attempts to understand the hostility of newly independent nations toward the United States; he traces the independence struggles of the peoples of the British, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese empires in the post-war era, as the United States, depite its anti-colonial heritage, tended to inherit the imperial mantle; how the United States lived up to the expectations of and demands from the new nations and how it responded to the challenge of world leadership and the burdens of being the dominant world power are the central issues in this book (maroon cloth with gold lettering; pictorial dust jacket)