If an empire, post-World War II America was the empire that dared not speak its name. But these days, on the part of friends and critics alike, the bashfulness has ended.

"An American Empire?", Harvard Magazine, vol. 105, no. 8 (November–December, 2002), p. 28. See also: The Cold War In Europe: Era of a Divided Continent (New York: Marcus Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1991), pt. 1, sec. 1, p. 5

Cf. John Taft, American Power: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Globalism (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), ch. 7, p. 212 | The result of Teddy Roosevelt's mission was the Spanish-American War and a U.S. empire that dared not speak its name. | Cf. Niall Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (London: Allen Lane, 2003), conclusion | It is an empire, in short, that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.