Carl T. Delfeld

openness and opportunity for second chances. Deep in the DNA of America is the ambition for success and the drive to stay “first among equals.” Learn how America can stay a dynamic global leader by following a pro-growth economic agenda, rebalancing eight key relationships, growing with emerging markets, pursuing a realistic China policy, and executing a forward-leaning trade policy as well as a conservative foreign policy. To move forward, we need to look back to George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Abraham Lincoln for they left us a blueprint to remain the strongest, the most prosperous and the most independent, respected, and influential nation on earth. We just need to follow it to build both a new American Century and a resurgent Republican Party. Delfeld’s guiding light in writing this optimistic book is to strengthen America’s role as the world’s leader. It is a blueprint to find our way forward, to get back on track to renewing America’s prosperity and global leadership. It starts with recognizing ten reasons why America has become the leader of the world. This means going beyond the dry and shopworn statistics to get at the “guts” of America’s strength and resiliency. It also examines the threats to America’s prosperity and challenges to our leadership such as China and our own misguided economic policies. Delfeld is convinced that our future lies in our hands rather than in Beijing, Brussels or Brasilia.