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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 fifteen years hence. In his new book, The United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the “Soviet path”—pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national security—and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff.
This is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the country—gripped by terror fantasies—was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned.
Praise for Tom Engelhardt and The United States of Fear
“Engelhardt is absorbing and provocative. Everything he writes is of a satisfyingly congruent piece.” —The New York Times
“A politician’s worst nightmare.” —Mother Jones
“Tom Engelhardt is the I. F. Stone of the post-9/11 age.” —Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times–bestselling author
“Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid . . . A stunning polemic.” —Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear and The Monster at Our Door
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 fifteen years hence. In his new book, The United States of Fear, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the “Soviet path”—pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national security—and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff.
This is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the country—gripped by terror fantasies—was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned.
Praise for Tom Engelhardt and The United States of Fear
“Engelhardt is absorbing and provocative. Everything he writes is of a satisfyingly congruent piece.” —The New York Times
“A politician’s worst nightmare.” —Mother Jones
“Tom Engelhardt is the I. F. Stone of the post-9/11 age.” —Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times–bestselling author
“Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid . . . A stunning polemic.” —Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear and The Monster at Our Door
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781608461615 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Publication date: | 02/13/2020 |
| Series: | TomDispatch Books |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 230 |
| Sales rank: | 828,302 |
| File size: | 476 KB |
About the Author
Tom Engelhardt created and runs Tomdispatch.com, a project of the Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's, The End of Victory Culture, and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, Mission Unaccomplished. Englehardt is also co-founder and co-editor of Metropolitan Books' The American Empire Project.
Table of Contents
1. Hiroshima Storyhttp://www.tomdispatch.com/post/108624/
2. When Was the Last Time You Visited Iraq? Exporting American Democracy to the World http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175223/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_all_the_world%27s_a_stage_%28for_us%29
3. Believe It or Not (2010 Imperial Edition), U.S. War-Fighting Numbers to Knock Your Socks Off http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175228/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_numbers_to_die_for__
4. Gods and Monsters, Fighting American Wars From On High http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175232/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_view_from_mount_olympus__
5. Yes We Could… Get Out! Why We Won’t Leave Afghanistan or Iraq http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175238/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_urge_to_stay
6. Yawn… How Many Times Have You Seen This Headline? http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175243/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_all-volunteer_wars
7. Obama’s Flailing Wars, A Study in BP-style Pragmatism http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175248/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_obama%27s_afpak_flip-flop_
8. American Denial, Living in a Can’t-Do Nation http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175255/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_living_in_the_51st_state_%28of_denial%29___
9. Call the Politboro, We’re in Trouble, Entering the Soviet Era in America http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175261/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_washington_drunk_on_war
10. America Detached from War, Bush’s Pilotless Dreams, Smoking Drones, and Other Strange Tales from the Crypt http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175265/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_perfect_american_weapon
11. Why Are We in Afghanistan? As Petraeus Takes Over, Could Success Be Worse than Failure?http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175272/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_petraeus_syndrome
12. The Opposites Game, All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175277/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_clueless_in_afghanistan_--_and_washington__
13. Whose Hands, Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175282/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_out%2C_damned_spot!
14. What If Washington… Five Absurd Things That Simply Can’t Happen in Wartime Washington http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175285/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_war_mentality
15. Will Our Generals Ever Shut Up? The Military’s Media Megaphone and the U.S. Global Military Presence http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175291/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_pentagon_triumphant_on_the_media_battlefield
16. The American Way of War Quiz, This Was the War Week That Was (Believe It or Not) http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175294/tomgram%3A_engelhardt_and_turse%2C_the_wacky_world_of_american_war
17. One and a Half Cheers for American Decline, The Future’s Not Ours -- and That’s Good News http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175298/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_why_the_troops_are_coming_home
18. The War Addicts, 2016 and Then Some http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175302/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_forever_war
19. A World Made by War http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175308/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_american_warscapes
20. Handicapping the Global Midterms, Winners and Losers http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175312/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_placing_your_global_bets
21. Ballot Box Blues, The Most Dispiriting Election of a Lifetime (Mine) http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175315/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_pentagon_lovers_and_welfare_queens
22. The Stimulus Package in Kabul, I Was Delusional – I Thought One Monster Embassy Was the End of It http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175320/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_war_to_the_horizon
23. How to Schedule a War, The Incredible, Shrinking Withdrawal Date http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175324/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_general_petraeus%27s_two_campaigns
24. The National Security State Cops a Feel, Taking Off the Gloves (and Then Everything Else) http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175325/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_united_states_of_fear
25. One November’s Dead, The American War Dead Disappear Into the Darkness http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175328/tomgram%3A__engelhardt%2C_epitaph_from_the_imperial_graveyard
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