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Hardcover: 9780805062380, Metropolitan Books, March 1, 2000, cover price $26.00
Paperback: 9780805075595, Reissue edition (Owl Books, January 4, 2004), cover price $16.00; and 9780805062397, Owl Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.00
Miscellaneous: 9781433204791, 2 mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2007), cover price $29.95
CD/Spoken Word: 9781433204784, Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2007), cover price $19.95
Cassette/Spoken Word: 9781433204777, 2 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2007), cover price $19.95
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
The paperback edition of the author's insightful and often troubling analysis of American foreign policy focuses on the unintended negative consequences of American actions abroad, from forced globalism to environmental disasters. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
(view table of contents)- Nemesis
- The Sorrows Of Empire
- Imperial Hubris
- The Secret Histories
- The Sorrows of Empire
Product Description: Now available in paperback, Chalmers Johnson's take-no-prisoners account of the consequences of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times)
The term "blowback," invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American policies. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms. From a case of rape by U.S. servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our actions in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster.
In the wake of the Cold War, the United States has imprudently expanded the commitments it made over the previous forty years, argues Johnson. In Blowback, he issues a warning we would do well to consider: it is time for our empire to demobilize before our bills come due.
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