Excerpt: Zakaria's 'The Post-American World'

Published May 03, 2008 at 10:24 AM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM EST Americans are glum at the moment. No, I mean really glum. In April, a new poll revealed that 81 percent of the American people believe that the country is on the "wrong track." In the 25 years that pollsters have asked this question, last month's response was by far the most negative. Other polls, asking similar questions,