"A tour de force."--Jeremy Scahill
"Tom Engelhardt is the I. F. Stone of the post-9/11
age."--Andrew J. Bacevich
In 2008, when the US National Intelligence Council issued its
latest report meant for the administration of newly elected
President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's "sole
superpower" would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing
fifteen years hence. In his new book "The United States of Fear,"
Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash
helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is
on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt
offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in
Washington took the "Soviet path"--pouring American treasure into
the military, war, and national security--and so helped drive their
country off the nearest cliff.
This is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into
the national bloodstream, how the country--gripped by terror
fantasies--was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite
fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned.
Think of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with
the triumphalist "sole superpower" of 1991 heading slowly for the
same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty
years earlier.
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the TomDispatch website, a
project of The Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He is the
author of the critically acclaimed "The American Way of War" and
"The End of Victory Culture."
General
Imprint: |
Haymarket Books
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2012 |
First published: |
December 2011 |
Authors: |
Tom Engelhardt
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
222 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-60846-154-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
LSN: |
1-60846-154-8 |
Barcode: |
9781608461547 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!