Dismantling the Empire Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Chalmers Johnson
SCORE
3.5
TOTAL RATINGS
178

Dismantling the Empire by Chalmers Johnson Book Summary

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.

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Book Name Dismantling the Empire
Genre Foreign Policy & International Relations
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Language English
E-Book Size 580.25 KB

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Hindsight. This is pure liberal trash. Written in a hindsight perspective. The author demonstrates, his distrust and lack of respect for this country he himself has benefited from. Do not waste your money on this book. It's full of lies and distortion. If the author wishes I'll pay for a flight to north Korea, with the promise he lives there for 5 years! Then let's see how he writes his next book.

Selective History. If you'd like to read a critique of American foreign policy that ignores critical facts and panders to liberal biases then this is the book for you. Setting aside the author's flawed interpretation of historical events, this book can serve as a wonderful basis for understanding the liberal world-view. Much like the fiction that guides the imperial forces the author feels to be so great a threat to the republic, the conceit that the USA is the source of all evil could be considered just as parochial and ethnocentric. Save your cash. Nothing new here.

Very thoughtful and relevant. Not liberal as a previous reviewer said. It's about America's place in the world. Just read the sample and you'll realize that he believes all recent administrations have contributed to current situations. This is a thoughtful treatise from a foreign relations specialist.

Thank You. Thanks for letting me know this was a liberal book! I will buy it immediately. Save me the trouble of being tricked into spending money that would go to a conservative.

Liberal trash. Obviously a Liberal, totally backwards. I don't understand how anyone could be this ignorant. It's just astonishing. But if your a hardcore liberal (which most liberals are) then I'm sure you will enjoy this book.

Honest Book. This is a great read for Americans who wonder why so many nations around the globe hate the U.S.- only the receiving end (people/nation) know the true oppression.

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Summary of Dismantling the Empire by Chalmers Johnson

The Dismantling the Empire book written by Chalmers Johnson was published on 17 August 2010, Tuesday in the Foreign Policy & International Relations category. A total of 178 readers of the book gave the book 3.5 points out of 5.

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