From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s future
The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of ‘spreading democracy’ – except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many?
In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America’s pursuit of global domination, offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths that dominant elites in the United States continue to push.
Offering penetrating accounts of Washington’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they examine how interventions such as these have been justified with noble stories about humanitarian missions and benevolent intentions but are now driving us closer to wars with Russia and China.
At once thorough and devastating, urgent and provocative, The Myth of American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions Noam Chomsky has come to after a lifetime of thought and activism.
Reviews:
\”With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us–and to discern what they are leaving out . . . Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening.\” — BusinessWeek
\”For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.\” — The New Statesman
\”It is possible that, if the United States goes the way of nineteenth-century Britain, Chomsky’s interpretation will be the standard among historians a hundred years from now. \” — The New Yorker
\”America’s most useful citizen.\” — The Boston Globe
\”Noam Chomsky . . . is a major scholarly resource. Not to have read [him] . . . is to court genuine ignorance.\” — The Nation
\”America, in [Chomsky’s] view, must be reined in, and he makes the case with verve. . . . We should understand it as a plea to end American hypocrisy, to introduce a more consistently principled dimension to American relations with the world, and, instead of assuming American benevolence, to scrutinize critically how the US government actually exercises its still-unmatched power. \” — The New York Review of Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton UK
Publication date: 15/10/2024
