Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (American Empire Project) - Hardcover

Chalmers Johnson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805093036 ISBN 13: 9780805093032

Publisher: Metropolitan Books, 2010

Synopsis

DISMANTLING THE EMPIRE explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama s Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought wars, and our capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle the empire before the Pentagon dismantles the American Dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.

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Product Description:

An urgent warning and prescription for remedy, as the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on americas waning power, disastrous wars, capitulation to the military, international bad behavior, and how this threatens the very core of American life, and the existence of the American Dream altogether. A superb collection of essays. (his)

Review:

"Stimulating and prescient. . ."--"Times Literary Supplement" "Succinct, hard-hitting attacks on what the author perceives as America's ruinous imperial follies..."--"Publishers Weekly," starred review "Concise, clear, hard-hitting. . . "Dismantling the Empire "is a must read for anyone looking for meaningful information concerning the future of the American Empire."--"Foreign Policy Journal" Praise for Chalmers Johnson"Johnson wants the scales to fall from American eyes so that the nation can see the truth about its role in the world. His is a patriot's passion: his motive is to save the American republic he loves."--Jonathan Freedland, "The New York Review of Books" "The role of the prophet is an honorable one. In Chalmers Johnson the American empire has found its Jeremiah. He deserves to be heard."--Andrew J. Bacevich, "The Washington Post Book World" "Chalmers Johnson's important new book is something with which everyone who aspires to a worthwhile opinion about this country's future must contend."--"The Los Angeles Times" (on "Nemesis") "Trenchantly argued, comprehensively documented, grimly eloquent. . . Worthy of the republic it seeks to defend."--"The Boston Globe" (on "The Sorrows of Empire") "Stunning and shocking. . . "Blowback" is a wake-up call for America."--John Dower, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Embracing Defeat" "Succinct, hard-hitting attacks on what the author perceives as America's ruinous imperial follies..."-"Publishers Weekly", starred review "Johnson wants the scales to fall from American eyes so that the nation can see the truth about its role in the world. His is a patriot's passion: his motive is to save the American republic he loves."-Jonathan Freedland, "The New York Review of Books" "The role of the prophet is an honorable one. In Chalmers Johnson the American empire has found its Jeremiah. He deserves to be heard."-Andrew J. Bacevich, "The Washington Post Book World" "Chalmers Johnson's important new book is something with which everyone who aspires to a worthwhile opinion about this country's future must contend."-"The Los Angeles Times" (on "Nemesis") "Trenchantly argued, comprehensively documented, grimly eloquent. . . Worthy of the republic it seeks to

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0805093036
• ISBN 13: 9780805093032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224