The United States of Fear

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With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire. In 2008, when the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted...

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Beschreibung

With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.

In 2008, when the U.S. 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 securityand 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 countrygripped by terror fantasieswas locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned.

Think of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist sole superpower" of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier.

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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.

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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.
Think of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist ?sole superpower" of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier.

Zusammenfassung
With piercing wit and brutal insight, Tom Engelhardt tours the future ruins of the American empire.
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