After writing a brilliant trilogy about the evolution of human consciousness , Morris Berman focused his energy to analyzing what warning as an economic, political, social and moral decline of America. When published Twilight of American culture ( Sixth Floor ) , in 2000 , his compatriots were full of wealth and pride. Just over a terrible decade later, things are very different. The roots of American failure closes his " American Trilogy ". The current American crisis, far from cyclical or temporary, was then registered in the principles that made America the most powerful country and emulated worldwide.