About this title: In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller "Hegemony or Survival," the author offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis, and its policies and practices have recklessly placed the world on the brink of disaster.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 2006-04-04
ISBN-13:9780805079128ISBN:0805079122
Description: Good. Clean Ex-Library copy. Usual stamps and stickers; dust jacket in mylar cover taped to boards. Text is unmarked and spine is sound. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780805079128ISBN:0805079122
Description: Very Good + in Very Good jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good condition, clean tight unmarked first print copy (full number line), sticker removed from inside front cover left surface abrasion, pencil marks on first page, dj NOT price-clipped but tips of dj snipped, 311 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 2006-04-04
ISBN-13:9780805079128ISBN:0805079122
Description: Very Good. Stated first edition with full number line, tight and bright, pages clear and bright, shelf wear, heavy edge wear, corners bumped, dust jacket tears at corner edges, front end paper creased. read more
"I haven't completely finished this book, so it's on the shelf for a while. It's excellent, but very dense - each page is full of valuable information. Noam Chomsky is an excellent writer and critic of the United States as a hegemony. There is a lot of eye-opening information regarding why the U.S. has entered various wars."
"Even if you don't agree with his viewpoint, Chomsky's books are packed with enough history, political upheavals and economic realities, that you simply cannot stop reading!"
"Such an intense book. Masses of evidence condensed down into as close to the truth as we're ever going to get - and it's a depressing truth.
I found the whole book stimulating to read, but it was the 6th chapter, "Democracy Promotion at Home" (which strayed from the main focus of the book - American foreign policy), that I found most interesting.
In it, Chomsky basically predicts the current financial meltdown in the US and the reasons for it. He then leads on from this into the healthcare debate which at the time over 70% of Americans were desperate for, but now, ironically hangs in the balance due to the lack of public finances caused directly by the aforementioned meltdown! All of this to the backdrop of a continuously limited 'democracy' in America being hijacked and misdirected by big business and the media. Amazing, if depressing, foresight.
Is this the ultimate end for Democracy in Capitalists states, where truth and public knowledge is lost to profits? Even with Obama now trying to write the wrongs of the Bush era, I think it's too late for America to save itself FROM itself. There are just too many fatally deep issues that need dealing with in the country and abroad now.
I can't currently foresee anything but the fall of America and the rise of China as the next world super-power."
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