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Book Synopsis Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by : Gore Vidal
Download or read book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace written by Gore Vidal and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2002-04-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of "evil-doers?" "Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age." -- Washington Post "Our greatest living man of letters." -- Boston Globe "Vidal's imagination of American politics is so powerful as to compel awe." -- Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books
Book Synopsis Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by : Harry Elmer Barnes
Download or read book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace written by Harry Elmer Barnes and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of nine revisionist essays edited by American historian and writer Harry Elmer Barnes, originally published in 1953, this intriguing volume offers a critical survey and appraisal of the development and implementation of American foreign policy of during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt; the FDR Administration’s deliberate manipulation of events in Europe and Asia to bring the US—against the wishes of the majority of its citizens—into World War II; and its resultant aftermath in the course of world history.
Download or read book Perpetual War written by Bruce Robbins and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. In this era of seemingly endless U.S. warfare, Robbins contends that the declining economic and political hegemony of the United States will tempt it into blaming other nations for its problems and lashing out against them. Under these conditions, cosmopolitanism in the traditional sense—primary loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole, even if it conflicts with loyalty to the interests of one's own nation—becomes a necessary resource in the struggle against military aggression. To what extent does the "new" cosmopolitanism also include or support this "old" cosmopolitanism? In an attempt to answer this question, Robbins engages with such thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Anthony Appiah, Immanuel Wallerstein, Louis Menand, W. G. Sebald, and Slavoj Zizek. The paradoxes of detachment and belonging they embody, he argues, can help define the tasks of American intellectuals in an era when the first duty of the cosmopolitan is to resist the military aggression perpetrated by his or her own country.
Book Synopsis Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by : Robert A. Divine
Download or read book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace written by Robert A. Divine and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repeatedly, Divine concludes, America seeks to use warfare to create a better and more stable world, only to meet with unexpected outcomes and the seeds of new hostility. Ironically, Divine finds that America's high ideals continually prevent the very peace the nation seeks." "In the epilogue, Divine applies his points to the final American war of the century, the conflict in Kosovo."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Empire of Defense written by Joseph Darda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I still think today as yesterday that the color line is a great problem of this century,” an eighty-five-year-old W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1953, revisiting his famous claim from fifty years earlier. But the “greater problem,” he now believed, was that war had “become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.” Empire of Defense reveals how that greater problem emerged and grew from the formation of the Department of Defense in the late 1940s to the long wars of the twenty-first century. When the Truman administration dissolved the Department of War, a cabinet-level department since 1789, and formed the DOD, it did not, Joseph Darda argues, end war but rather establish new racial criteria for who could wage it, for which lives deserved defending. Historians have long studied “perpetual war.” Critical race theorists have long confronted “the permanence of racism.” Empire of Defense shows––through an investigation of state documents, fiction, film, memorials, and news media––how the two converged and endure through national defense. Amid the rise of anticolonial and antiracist movements the world over, defense secured the future of war and white supremacy.
Book Synopsis The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by : Stephen Kinzer
Download or read book The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War written by Stephen Kinzer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today's world During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, Stephen Kinzer places their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. He uses the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world? The Brothers explores hidden forces that shape the national psyche, from religious piety to Western movies—many of which are about a noble gunman who cleans up a lawless town by killing bad guys. This is how the Dulles brothers saw themselves, and how many Americans still see their country's role in the world. Propelled by a quintessentially American set of fears and delusions, the Dulles brothers launched violent campaigns against foreign leaders they saw as threats to the United States. These campaigns helped push countries from Guatemala to the Congo into long spirals of violence, led the United States into the Vietnam War, and laid the foundation for decades of hostility between the United States and countries from Cuba to Iran. The story of the Dulles brothers is the story of America. It illuminates and helps explain the modern history of the United States and the world. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2013
Book Synopsis Althusser and His Contemporaries by : Warren Montag
Download or read book Althusser and His Contemporaries written by Warren Montag and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoroughgoing reevaluation of Louis Althusser's philosophical project shows that the theorist was intensely engaged with the work of his contemporaries, particularly Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Lacan.
Book Synopsis Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by : Harry Barnes
Download or read book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace written by Harry Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic collection of historical revisionist essays edited by Harry Elmer Barnes dealing with the astonishing duplicity of American foreign policy leading up to the Second World War. Actually 9 books in 1, this work will forever change your understanding of how America was dragged into that war. Chapter 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout by Harry Elmer Barnes. Chapter 2. The United States and the Road to War in Europe by Dr Charles Callan Tansill. Chapter 3. Roosevelt Is Frustrated in Europe by Dr Frederic R Sanborn. Chapter 4: How American Policy toward Japan Contributed to War in the Pacific by Dr. William L. Neumann. Chapter 5: Japanese-American Relations, 1921-1941; The Pacific Back Road to War by Dr Charles Callan Tansill. Chapter 6. The Actual Road to Pearl Harbor by George Morgenstern. Chapter 7: The Pearl Harbor Investigations by Percy L. Greaves, Jr. Chapter 8: The Bankruptcy of a Policy by William Henry Chamberlin. Chapter 9: American Foreign Policy in the Light of National Interest at the Mid-Century by Dr. George A. Lundberg. Chapter 10: Summary and Conclusion by Harry Elmer Barnes.
Book Synopsis Washington Rules by : Andrew J. Bacevich
Download or read book Washington Rules written by Andrew J. Bacevich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military operations in far-flung regions, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned gospel. In Washington Rules, a vivid, incisive analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich succinctly presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America's needs and desires—whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous. Though our politicians deny it, American global might is faltering. This is the moment, Bacevich argues, to reconsider the principles which shape American policy in the world—to acknowledge that fixing Afghanistan should not take precedence over fixing Detroit. Replacing this Washington consensus is crucial to America's future, and may yet offer the key to the country's salvation.
Book Synopsis Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by : Harry Barnes
Download or read book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace written by Harry Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of historical essays dealing with the astonishing duplicity of American foreign policy leading up to the Second World War. Actually 9 books in 1, this work will forever change your understanding of how America was dragged into that war. Chapter 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout by Harry Elmer Barnes. This details the methods used by the enemies of truth to suppress those historians who dare to lift the veil on reasons for world events, focussing specifically on America's entry into both World Wars. Chapter 2. The United States and the Road to War in Europe by Dr Charles Callan Tansill, reveals how the betrayal of President Wilson's Fourteen Points and the terms of the Armistice of November 11, 1918, laid the basis for the Second World War. Chapter 3. Roosevelt Is Frustrated in Europe by Dr Frederic R Sanborn. This section reveals FDR's anti-German policy in Europe and his unsuccessful efforts to directly enter the war through the "front door." By 1941, Roosevelt decided to force America into war through the "back door" of the Far East by a manipulation of Japanese-American relations. Chapter 4: How American Policy toward Japan Contributed to War in the Pacific by Dr. William L. Neumann, provides an overview of Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives which were designed to drive Japan into the war, which would serve as a spark to enter the war in Europe. These policies included an embargo which was nothing less than the economic strangulation of Japan, a policy which the American naval authorities advised against because they knew it would lead to war. Japan, given the alternative of economic starvation or war. Chapter 5: Japanese-American Relations, 1921-1941; The Pacific Back Road to War by Dr Charles Callan Tansill. An account of Roosevelt's rejection of all Japanese peace overtures from 1933 to the end of 1941, and of how he ultimately succeeded in needling the Japanese into the decision to attack Pearl Harbor. Chapter 6. The Actual Road to Pearl Harbor by George Morgenstern. A detailed account of the antecedents of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which casts aside the lies and whitewashing around the event. The cracking of the Japanese code and diplomatic messages revealed that Roosevelt and his henchmen knew exactly when, and where, the Japanese would attack, and deliberately did not warn the commander at Pearl Harbor so as to maximize the shock effect to create a war footing in America and undo the isolationist efforts. Chapter 7: The Pearl Harbor Investigations by Percy L. Greaves, Jr., is the only thorough and searching account of the various investigations of the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. This includes the previously confidential report by Secretary of the Navy William Franklin Knox, who flew to Hawaii immediately after the disaster and reported to the president about a week later. Knox stated that the Pearl Harbor commanders could not be held responsible for the tragedy since they had not been supplied with the secret information about the impending Japanese attack which had been intercepted in Washington. Chapter 8: The Bankruptcy of a Policy by William Henry Chamberlin, reveals the physical and monetary cost of Roosevelt's lies which brought his country into the Second World War against the wishes of at least 80 percent of the American people. Chapter 9: American Foreign Policy in the Light of National Interest at the Mid-Century by Dr. George A. Lundberg. This section investigates the bearing and effects of the Roosevelt-Truman global foreign policy on the national interest of the United States, and in particular how it reversed the tradition of American isolationism into one of taking on the role of "world policeman"-a policy which has led to an ever-increasing series of disasters for the American people. Chapter 10: Summary and Conclusions. By Harry Elmer Barnes.
Book Synopsis A Perpetual Menace by : William Walker
Download or read book A Perpetual Menace written by William Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of new sciences, technologies and administrative capabilities greatly expanded states’ abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to nuclear weapons during the Cold War. It became more complex after the end of the Cold War, as power structures shifted, new insecurities emerged, prior ordering strategies were called into question, and as technologies relevant to weapons of mass destruction became more accessible to non-state actors as well as states. William Walker explores how this problem is conceived by influential actors, how they have tried to fashion solutions in the face of many predicaments, and why those solutions have been deemed effective and ineffective, legitimate and illegitimate, in various times and contexts.
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Book Synopsis Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace by : Harry Elmer Barnes
Download or read book Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace written by Harry Elmer Barnes and published by Ostara Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic collection of historical revisionist essays edited by Harry Elmer Barnes dealing with the astonishing duplicity of American foreign policy leading up to the Second World War. Actually 9 books in 1, this work will forever change your understanding of how America was dragged into that war. Chapter 1. Revisionism and the Historical Blackout by Harry Elmer Barnes. Chapter 2. The United States and the Road to War in Europe by Dr Charles Callan Tansill. Chapter 3. Roosevelt Is Frustrated in Europe by Dr Frederic R Sanborn. Chapter 4: How American Policy toward Japan Contributed to War in the Pacific by Dr. William L. Neumann. Chapter 5: Japanese-American Relations, 1921-1941; The Pacific Back Road to War by Dr Charles Callan Tansill. Chapter 6. The Actual Road to Pearl Harbor by George Morgenstern. Chapter 7: The Pearl Harbor Investigations by Percy L. Greaves, Jr. Chapter 8: The Bankruptcy of a Policy by William Henry Chamberlin. Chapter 9: American Foreign Policy in the Light of National Interest at the Mid-Century by Dr. George A. Lundberg. Chapter 10: Summary and Conclusion by Harry Elmer Barnes.
Book Synopsis Light Perpetual by : Francis Spufford
Download or read book Light Perpetual written by Francis Spufford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
Download or read book Drift written by Rachel Maddow and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.
Book Synopsis Perpetual war, the only ground of perpetual Safety and Prosperity by : Edward Hankin
Download or read book Perpetual war, the only ground of perpetual Safety and Prosperity written by Edward Hankin and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perpetual War written by John Lowell and published by Boston : C. Stfbbins [i.e. Stebbins]. This book was released on 1813 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
