God and GoldBy: Walter Russell Mead A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challegedby Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis,