Reading Quigley's book, one has to, then, call back into question Sir Michael's comment below.
"...The citizens of the United States had not joined in the Second World War to prop up a system of imperial domination against which they had been the first people to revolt...." Sir Michael Howard
In a wider context, the imperial domination of the Western Imperial Powers, and especially of the British hegemony of that domination, fell apart from within, and specifically from within Britain, rather than later at the instance of the United States, although, certainly, he was right that, by the end of WWII, we were the only power, then, which could have combined with the Imperial Powers to salvage their dominion (and ours).
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