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American Empire Project Series

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Americans have long believed that the very notion of empire is an offense against our democratic heritage, yet in recent months, these two words — American empire — have been on everyone’s lips. At this moment of unprecedented economic and military strength, the leaders of the United States have embraced imperial ambitions openly. How did we get to…
After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed
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3.97 · 302 Ratings · 68 Reviews · 5 editions
A bold and urgent perspective on how American fore…

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    Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism
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    4.05     · 1272 Ratings · 115 Reviews · published 2006 · 8 editions
    The British and Roman empires are often invoked as…

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    Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
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    4.18     · 1696 Ratings · 176 Reviews · published 2017 · 19 editions
    In a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsk…

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    Who Rules the World?
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    4.05     · 11596 Ratings · 1107 Reviews · published 2014 · 16 editions
    In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current i…

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    Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World
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    4.16     · 343 Ratings · 59 Reviews · published 2015 · 12 editions
    From Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Hond…

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    No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
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    4.47     · 3932 Ratings · 510 Reviews · published 2014 · 16 editions
    Gopal’s dramatic narrative, full of vivid personal…

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    Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country
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    4.06     · 500 Ratings · 98 Reviews · published 2013 · 11 editions
    A blistering critique of the gulf between America'…

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    Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
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    4.23     · 4587 Ratings · 702 Reviews · published 2013 · 18 editions
    Based on classified documents and first-person int…

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    Dilemmas of Domination: The Unmaking of the American Empire
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    3.48     · 25 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 10 editions
    From "the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionar…

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    Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
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    4.12     · 2524 Ratings · 243 Reviews · published 2012 · 30 editions
    A compelling new set of interviews on our changing…

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    We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
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    3.93     · 671 Ratings · 109 Reviews · published 2011 · 12 editions
    From a State Department insider, the first account…

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    Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
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    4.02     · 1140 Ratings · 153 Reviews · published 2010 · 18 editions
    The bestselling author of The Limits of Power crit…

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    Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope
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    3.95     · 405 Ratings · 46 Reviews · published 2010 · 18 editions
    The author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy ref…

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    Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-opted Human Rights
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    4.04     · 57 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 2011 · 8 editions
    From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst,…

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    The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
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    3.38     · 127 Ratings · 24 Reviews · published 2008 · 19 editions
    A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive,…

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    The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger
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    3.89     · 36 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions
    From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Ear…

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    The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
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    3.98     · 2374 Ratings · 353 Reviews · published 2008 · 21 editions
    From an acclaimed conservative historian and forme…

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    Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
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    4.10     · 77 Ratings · 15 Reviews · published 2008 · 5 editions
    From "the finest literary stylist of the American …

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    A People's History of American Empire
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    4.15     · 2927 Ratings · 328 Reviews · published 2008 · 23 editions
    Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People’s…

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    What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
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    4.02     · 1342 Ratings · 101 Reviews · 39 editions
    An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and …

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    Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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    3.98     · 5720 Ratings · 312 Reviews · published 2006 · 13 editions
    The United States has repeatedly asserted its righ…

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    In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
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    3.86     · 21 Ratings · published 2005 · 3 editions
    A riveting documentary anthology that examines a d…

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    Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
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    4.06     · 2512 Ratings · 213 Reviews · published 2000 · 37 editions
    Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the …

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    Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
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    4.07     · 959 Ratings · 74 Reviews · published 2007 · 22 editions
    Political Science on the subject of American invol…

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    Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
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    4.05     · 63 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2006 · 6 editions
    "An urgent book."―Arundhati Roy

    Three years after t…

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    A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror
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    4.13     · 331 Ratings · 32 Reviews · published 2006 · 16 editions
    "An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA…

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    Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
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    3.99     · 259 Ratings · 32 Reviews · published 2005 · 14 editions
    "The most clear and engaging history of the deadly…

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    Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
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    3.99     · 2249 Ratings · 143 Reviews · published 2005 · 33 editions
    In this first collection of interviews since the
    b…

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    Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
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    3.76     · 449 Ratings · 52 Reviews · published 2004 · 13 editions
    In his pathbreaking Resource Wars , world security…

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    Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War
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    3.85     · 26 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2004 · 7 editions
    A devastating indictment of the Bush administratio…

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    The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
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    4.14     · 1582 Ratings · 110 Reviews · published 2003 · 28 editions
    From the author of the prophetic national bestsell…

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    Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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    3.97     · 13815 Ratings · 507 Reviews · published 2003 · 73 editions
    An immediate national bestseller, Hegemony or Surv…

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