We chose to review this book because presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been carrying it around the world with him in recent weeks, and it makes sense to review any new book that could therefore be this influential.
 
It is a surprisingly thoughtful and clear, readable work on the current and future status of America as a superpower. It is emphatically not anti-American, or even pro-American, although the author is a Indian-born US citizen living in New York…