Pretensions to Empire
Subtitle: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
Publisher: New Press
Published: September 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781595581129
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Central government; 21st century; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; USA; Essays; Government - Executive Branch; Government - National; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science / Government / General; Imperialism; Political corruption; United States
Description: "At a time when the major media have been at their most passive and subservient, Lewis Lapham stands virtually alone among mainstream American journalists in having consistently seen through the fog of lies and narcissism surrounding the Bush administration from its earliest days in Washington. In bringing together Lapham's trenchant political commentaries from his National Magazine Award-winning Harper's "Notebook" column, Pretensions to Empire gives us a complete picture of a presidency whose ambition and abuses of power have led the United States down a precipitous path, culminating in Lapham's eloquent case for impeachment."--Jacket.