> There's really no way to nail down when the American Golden age
> started. there's no single political figure like Augustus, nor seminal
> event, like the defeat of the Persians at Thermapolye, to say just
> when the power & glory shifted.
>
> The empire never had defined borders either. American artifacts, art,
> culture, and language dispersed far beyond its own borders, in
> different amounts in different regions at different times. Parts of
> the empire have never yet had American boots on the ground, and many
> pieces of what came to be thot of as its culture and imperialism were
> actually assimilated from somewhere else.
>
> Just like English, which it took in so completely that people forget
> that it ever came from England. Or the American space program,
> designed by German engineering. Or Jazz, which traces from African
> roots. Rock & Roll began on the radio in Helena Arkansas with "The
> King Biscuit hour" on a black station. Which is still on the air.
>
> Saying just when it ended is likewise ambiguous. Even from the ...

> On Jul 31, 7:59 am, Day Brown hughes.net> wrote:
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>> There's really no way to nail down when the American Golden age
>> started. there's no single political figure like Augustus, nor seminal
>> event, like the defeat of the Persians at Thermapolye, to say just
>> when the power & glory shifted.

>

>> The empire never had defined borders either. American artifacts, art,
>> culture, and language dispersed far beyond its own borders, in
>> different amounts in different regions at different times. Parts of
>> the empire have never yet had American boots on the ground, and many
>> pieces of what came to be thot of as its culture and imperialism were
>> actually assimilated from somewhere else.

>

>> Just like English, which it took in so completely that people forget
>> that it ever came from England. Or the American space program,
>> designed by German engineering. Or Jazz, which traces from African ...