[bksvol-discuss] Submitted
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 20:05:39 -0400
Hi all,
I've just submitted for proofing "Dismantling the Empire: America's Last
Best Hope" by Chalmers Johnson.
It's been read through w/errors corrected. All headers stripped;
section/chapter titles and page numbers present/protected; text is
formatted. 214 pages.
I suggest removing the "adult" designation.
Synopsis:
The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy reflects on America's waning
power in a masterful collection of essays. In his prophetic book Blowback,
published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in
Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a
brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson
measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance
on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he
declares, nothing short of "a suicide option. "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.
Deborah
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