"Money should not be taken away from essential nation-building activity to do branding," he said.
America, Ms Maddox's book concludes, is still the essential nation.
Perhaps America's role as the "essential nation" extends beyond the realms of economics and foreign policy.
PATRIOTIC Americans can relax and Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, who has so cleverly endeared the United States to the rest of humanity by proclaiming America the world's one "essential nation," should be proud.
"That is why it is essential that nations of the world come together to exchange experiences in their local struggles against a global enemy," he said, referring to the conference, formally called the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
Courier arrives at a time when another charismatic former star, Patrick Rafter, has just taken over as captain in Davis Cup's other essential historical nation, Australia, which, for the moment, is not even in the top division.
Although he maintained that the matter of education was an important issue and thought that a common culture with common ideals was essential to nation-building, he felt that, from a political standpoint, the bourgeoisie and upper classes were most important.
There can be no doubt how essential our nation's entitlement programs have become for the health of the country.
These efforts not only help determine the etiology of febrile illnesses and antimicrobial sensitivity patterns in these areas but also provide essential host-nation laboratory capacity building and training.
