Myth of American Idealism

Truly eye-opening . . . The most accessible and coherent introduction to Chomsky's ideas' Irish TimesThe land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of spreading democracy except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many?In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America s pursuit of global domination from Washington s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths that dominant elites in the United States continue to push.Thorough, urgent and provocative, The Myth of American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions Noam Chomsky has come to after a lifetime of thought and activism. An incredibly valuable teaching tool Los Angeles Review of Books