Like an eagle, American colonists ascended from the gulley of British dependence to the position of sovereign world power in a period of merely two centuries.  Seizing territory in Canada and representation in Britain; expelling the French, and even their British forefathers, American leaders George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson paved their nation's way to independence.  With the first buds of public-relation techniques -- of communication, dramatization, and propaganda -- America flourished into a vision of freedom, enterprise, and unalienable human rights.

 















In Encounter Books' new Flight of the Eagle:  The Grand Strategies That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World Leadership, Conrad Black provides a perspective on American history that is unprecedented.  Through his analysis of the strategic development of the United States, from 1754 to 1992, Black describes the nine "phases" of the strategic rise of the nation, in which it progressed through grave challenges, civil and foreign wars, and secured a place for itself under the title of "Superpower."

Black was the chairman of The Telegraph newspapers in Britain from 1987 to 2003, and founded the National Post in Canada, where he remains a columnist.  He has been a member of the British House of Lords since 2001.

In Flight of the Eagle, he addresses the present times and America's future in the hopes that it will return to the dynamism of great leadership and pre-eminence in the world, which it richly earned and still shows signs of today.

Encounter Books is an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, a nonprofit group that is substantially supported by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee.