{"product_id":"dismantling-the-empire-americas-last-best-hope-paperback","title":"Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChalmers Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy, an urgent call to confront America's waning power\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his prophetic book \u003ci\u003eBlowback\u003c\/i\u003e, published before 9\/11, Chalmers Johnson warned that our secret operations in Iraq and elsewhere around the globe would exact a price at home. Now, in a brilliant series of essays written over the last three years, Johnson measures that price and the resulting dangers America faces. Our reliance on Pentagon economics, a global empire of bases, and war without end is, he declares, nothing short of \"a suicide option.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDismantling the Empire\u003c\/i\u003e explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, bad behavior in other countries, ill-fought wars, and capitulation to a military that has taken ever more control of the federal budget. There is, he proposes, only one way out: President Obama must begin to dismantle America's empire of bases before the Pentagon dismantles the American dream. If we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and a crucial prescription for a remedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChalmers Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, is the author of the bestselling books \u003ci\u003eBlowback\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNemesis\u003c\/i\u003e, which make up his Blowback Trilogy. He has written for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and TomDispatch.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 226\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.02 x 5.15 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131110494343,"sku":"9780805094237","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/91b2c32e2e010c6219c12af36df928bf.webp?v=1732616421","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dismantling-the-empire-americas-last-best-hope-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}