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Informationen zum Autor Patrick Mendis, a visiting foreign policy scholar at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the author of Trade for Peace, is a former military professor and American diplomat during the Clinton and Bush administrations. Dr. Mendis is an alumnus of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is an affiliate professor of public and international affairs at George Mason University. Klappentext Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's 'Universal Empire' through Hamilton's 'Federalism' realizes Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty.' The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum. Zusammenfassung Author Patrick Mendis explores unseen forces that have guided America to global dominance. He details how the creation of Madison's 'Universal Empire' through Hamilton's 'Federalism' realizes Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty.' The author then unveils America's Masonic endgame of universal brotherhood: E Pluribus Unum. Inhaltsverzeichnis IllustrationsDedicationForewordPrefaceProvidence and Empire1. A Rendezvous with DestinyPart I: The Birth of a New Nation2. E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One3. Freemasonry as a Catalyst and High Priest4. Worldviews of Colonists and PilgrimsPart II: A Philosophic Commercial Empire5. Adam Smith on Founding America6. Hamiltonian Means to Jeffersonian Ends7. The Commerce Clause as the Force for UnityPart III: Annuit Coeptis, Providence (God) Favors our Undertakings8. The Pythagorean Potomac Delta9. The Anatomy of Commercial Providence10. The Mercurial Ruler and Sacred Constitution Avenue11. Altar of Empire: The Virgoan Federal TrianglePart IV: James Madison's Universal Empire12. Novus Ordo Seclorum and the New World Order13. Madison's Grand Strategy for a Universal EmpireEpilogueGod's Crucible Nation: Predestiny or Free Will?NotesSelected BibliographyIndexAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author...