{"product_id":"the-united-states-of-fear-9781608461547","title":"The United States of Fear","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn 2008, when the U.S. National Intelligence Council issued its latest report meant for the administration of newly elected President Barack Obama, it predicted that the planet's \"sole superpower\" would suffer a modest decline and a soft landing fifteen years hence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his new book \u003ci\u003eThe United States of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e, Tom Engelhardt makes clear that Americans should don their crash helmets and buckle their seat belts, because the United States is on the path to a major decline at a startling speed. Engelhardt offers a savage anatomy of how successive administrations in Washington took the \"Soviet path\"--pouring American treasure into the military, war, and national security--and so helped drive their country off the nearest cliff. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the startling tale of how fear was profitably shot into the national bloodstream, how the country--gripped by terror fantasies--was locked down, and how a brain-dead Washington elite fiddled (and profited) while America quietly burned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThink of it as the story of how the Cold War really ended, with the triumphalist \"sole superpower\" of 1991 heading slowly for the same exit through which the Soviet Union left the stage twenty years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-894060\"\u003eTom Engelhardt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/13\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781608461547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1608461548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL046000\"\u003eCommentary \u0026amp; Opinion\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL040000\"\u003eAmerican Government | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL047000\"\u003eImperialism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Engelhardt created and runs Tomdispatch.com, a project of the Nation Institute where he is a Fellow. He is the author \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Victory Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, and of a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Publishing\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a collection of his Tomdispatch interviews, \u003ci\u003eMission Unaccomplished\u003c\/i\u003e. Englehardt is also co-founder and co-editor of Metropolitan Books' The American Empire Project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696483995885,"sku":"9781608461547","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_713240bf-74c0-48a3-b8d8-d0fe6a4cf6d0.jpg?v=1649880472","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-united-states-of-fear-9781608461547","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}