Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #692668 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Synopsis
The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this is a cogent and powerful statement against the American war in Vietnam. It critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal intellectuals - the "new mandarins" - who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people. With a new forward by Howard Zinn, Chomsky's book - available for the first time in several years - is a renewed call for independent analysis of America's role in the world.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic, still as relevant today as in 1969.
A great insight into the liberal intellectual critique of, and support, of the Vietnam war. Chomsky makes it abundantly clear that a wealth of what we might otherwise take to be excellent historical and political insight is in fact asking entirely the wrong questions. Rarely does a book come along which demands that you re-evaluate the way you approach things, and which makes makes clear how misleading many leading approaches to problems can be.

This is as relevant today, in relation to media and Government portrails of the "War against Terror" and the invasion and occupation of Iraq, as it was in 1969 in relation to American power in Asia and specifically in relation to the Vietnam conflict.