Brendan Goff is an independent scholar who writes about US cultural, international, and business history. He was most recently Assistant Professor of History at New College of Florida, and was formerly a fellow at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan.
This far-ranging account of transnational networking reveals the
Main Street, middle-class making of modern global capitalism. Goff
is as attuned to the paradoxes of Rotary internationalism as he is
to its place in the American Century. -- Kristin L. Hoganson,
author of The Heartland: An American History
In this innovative book, Goff uses the international history of the
Rotary Club to chart the origins of the 'American Century.' Tracing
Rotary's remarkable, worldwide expansion in the first half of the
twentieth century, he offers fresh insights on American global
power and transnational civic engagement, cultural diplomacy and
corporate capitalism. Filled with fascinating stories of Rotarians
and their activities on Main Streets far and wide, this book
deserves a broad readership. -- Julia F. Irwin, author of Making
the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation's Humanitarian
Awakening
Imaginatively conceived and highly readable, this book tells the
remarkable story of Rotary International's campaign to expand from
Chicago to the world at large. Goff makes an important contribution
both to our understanding of Main Street America's thinking about
international trade and foreign policy, and of the business culture
and voluntarism that Rotary promoted around the world. -- David C.
Hammack, coauthor of A Versatile American Institution: The
Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations
In Goff's hands, we see the Rotarian as an advance agent of US
power, a missionary for international capitalism, and an advocate
of a business culture that shaped the twentieth-century world.
Based on rich, diverse sources and told in a clear, compelling
narrative, this remarkable book about how Rotarians crafted a
'civic internationalism' will be widely read. -- Christopher
Capozzola, author of Bound by War: How the United States and the
Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
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