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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “tom engelhardt”
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  • The United States of Fear

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com "focuses on the specific absurdities of American wars . . . strident, passionate, and problem-solving" ( Mother Jones).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 ... Read more

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  • The American Way of War

    How Bush's Wars Became Obama's

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com "tackles our military fetish . . . He takes on our war-possessed world with clear-eyed, penetrating precision" ( Mother Jones).Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to present day, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end.Since 2001, ... Read more

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  • A Nation Unmade by War

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    "In his searing new book . . . Engelhardt has composed a requiem for a nation turned upside down by the relentless pursuit of global power" (Karen J. Greenberg, author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State).As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade ... Read more

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  • Shadow Government

    Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    "A book about secrets and surveillance . . . [from] one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing" (Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark).In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside ... Read more

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  • Other Septembers, Many Americas

    Selected Provocations, 1980-2004

    by Ariel Dorfman ...
    "Let me tell you, America, of the hopes I had for you," Dorfman writes after the fall of the Twin Towers, remembering back to an earlier September 11 in 1973, when he was on the staff of Salvador Allende, then president of Chile, the day he was removed from office and murdered in a coup in which the U.S. government was complicit. "Beware the plague of victimhood, America . . . Nothing is more ... Read more

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  • The End of Victory Culture

    Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation

    by Tom Engelhardt, Thomas M. Engelhardt ...
    Series series Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond
    In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden, “Wanted, Dead or Alive”); how his administration brought “victory culture” roaring back ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • History Wars

    The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past

    Edited by Edward T. Linenthal, Tom Engelhardt ...
    Inspired by the Smithsonian's controversial exhibit on the Enola Gay, "excellent" essays examining America's attitudes toward her past ( Kirkus Reviews)."Our history has been held hostage by the righteous right—Legionnaires, Congressional Claghorns, and courtier-scholars—ever since Year One. From the winning of the West to Hiroshima, our nation's purity of purpose was never doubted. Along comes a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

    Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb

    by Robert Jacobs, Mick Broderick, John Canaday, Tom Engelhardt, Carole Gallagher, Judy Hiramoto, Kenji Ito, Minoru Maeda, Naoko Maeda, Yuki Tanaka, Spencer Weart ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent of nuclear weapons and articulating a creative response to the dilemma posed by this apocalyptic ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    From Truman to Trump

    by Clifford D. Conner ...
    A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.Despite a facade of brilliant technological advances, American science has led humanity to the brink of interrelated disasters. In The Tragedy of American Science, historian of science Clifford D. Conner describes the dual processes by which this ... Read more

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  • A New Foreign Policy

    Beyond American Exceptionalism

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    In this sobering analysis of American foreign policy under Trump, the award-winning economist calls for a new approach to international engagement.The American Century began in 1941 and ended in 2017, on the day of President Trump's inauguration. The subsequent turn toward nationalism and "America first" unilateralism did not made America great. It announced the abdication of our responsibilities ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Risk

    by Anne Dufourmantelle ...
    Translated by Steven Miller ...
    A philosophical critique of how society encourages us to avoid risk when we should instead accept it.When Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in a heroic attempt to save two children caught in rough seas, obituaries around the world rarely failed to recall that she authored In Praise of Risk, implying that her death confirmed the ancient adage that to philosophize is to learn how to die. Now available in ... Read more

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  • American Conservatism

    Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition

    Edited by Andrew J. Bacevich ...
    As the nation stands at a crossroads, this “valuable collection” urges us to reexamine the ideas and values of the American conservative tradition—offering “a bracing tonic for the present chaos” (The Washington Post).A groundbreaking collection of mainstream conservative writings since 1900, featuring pieces by Ronald Reagan, Antonin Scalia, Joan Didion, and moreWhat is American conservatism? ... Read more

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