Claim: "American Power and the New Mandarins", a book which suggested that American intellectuals were largely responsible for the Vietnam War, was written by political activist, historian, scientist and author Noam Chomsky.
Evidence: American Power and the New Mandarins is a book by the US academic Noam Chomsky, largely written in 1968, published in 1969. Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Chomsky develops the proposition, laid out in The Responsibility of Intellectuals, that the American intellectual and technical class, in universities and in government (the New Mandarins), bear major responsibility for the atrocities perpetrated by the United States in Vietnam.