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    The United States of Fear

    The United States of Fear

    by Tom Engelhardt


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      ISBN-13: 9781608461615
    • Publisher: Haymarket Books
    • Publication date: 12/13/2011
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 230
    • Sales rank: 162,393
    • File size: 293 KB

    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

    Introduction American Warscapes 1

    1 The United States of Fear 19

    2 Entering the Soviet Era 41

    3 Their Dead and Ours 67

    4 Obama's Flailing Wars 96

    5 Waist Deep in the Washington Quagmire 122

    6 Living with War 142

    7 Imperial Decline 161

    Afterword On Being a Critic 197

    Note on the Text 204

    Acknowledgments 207

    Index 209

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    "A tour de force."—Jeremy Scahill

    "Tom Engelhardt is the I. F. Stone of the post-9/11 age."—Andrew J. Bacevich

    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.

    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.

    Tom Engelhardt created and runs the TomDispatch website, a project of The Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The American Way of War and The End of Victory Culture.


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