Rethinking Camelot: Jfk, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture - Softcover

Chomsky, Noam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608464032 ISBN 13: 9781608464036

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2015

Synopsis

"Rethinking Camelot" is a thorough analysis of John F. Kennedy's role in the U/S. invasion of Vietnam and a probing reflection on the elite political culture that allowed and encouraged the Cold War. In it, Chomsky dismisses effort to resurrect Camelotan attractive American myth portraying JFK as a shining knight promising peace, fooled only by assassins bent on stopping this lone hero who wold have unilaterally withdraws from Vietnam had he lived. Chomsky argues that U.S. institutions and political culture, not individual presidents, are the key to understanding U.S. behavior during Vietnam."

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Review:

"Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[Rethinking Camelot provides] strong arguments against Kennedy mythologists."
--Publisher's Weekly

"An interesting work not only for the history it explores, but also as a study of how various individuals and groups write and interpret history."
--Choice

About the Author:

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. A member of the American Academy of Science, he has published widely in both linguistics and current affairs. His books include At War with Asia, Towards a New Cold War, Fateful Triangle: The U. S., Israel and the Palestinians, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Deterring Democracy, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.

About this edition

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1608464032
• ISBN 13: 9781608464036
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224