Name: Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
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Author: Lapham, Lewis H.
ISBN: 9781595582294

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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lewis H. Lapham

Publisher

New Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.9x14.2x2.2 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

1595582290

ISBN13

9781595582294

Synopsis "Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration"

Pretensions to Empire brings together Lewis Lapham's recent political commentaries from his National Magazine Award-winning Harper's "Notebook" column, beginning with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and culminating in Lapham's eloquent (and widely cited) case for the impeachment of George W. Bush.Written in the highly literate and "self-assured style" (Publishers Weekly) that has earned Lapham a large and devoted readership, the pieces in this collection provide not only a critical perspective on Bush's presidency--helping us understand what happened and how it happened--but also vital new information and research, including a brilliant dissection of the Republican propaganda mill's octopus-like network and its role in the neoconservative ascent to power. As Lapham writes in the book's preface, "these essays describe a march of folly, establish a record of moral incompetence and criminal intent, speak to the character of a government stupefied by its worship of money and blinded by its belief in miracles."Elegant and erudite, Pretensions to Empire is a "rousing" indictment of a stumbling political regime from the "loquacious lion of the literary left" (Mother Jones).

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