The United States of Fear
by Tom Engelhardt 2020-07-15 11:03:21
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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 f... Read more
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 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.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 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. Less
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  • 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.01 in
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  • Haymarket Books
  • December 23, 2011
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  • 9781608461615
Edward T. Linenthal is Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is the author of Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields and Pres...
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