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The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America 1st Edition

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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 432 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (September 4, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520237730
  • ISBN-13: 978-0520237735
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #679,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA deep, convincing analysis of the road to conspiracy and disaster.
By Anthony J. Thorne on September 12, 2007
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Peter Dale Scott's long-in-the-works THE ROAD TO 9/11 is outstanding, powerful, sad, in a way, and quietly gripping. (It's also notable for the fact that the University of California Press only reportedly published it after they'd spent the better part of a year scrupulously fact checking and cautiously vetting it for accuracy). Glib summaries aren't likely to do it justice. There have been several books published so far that address the official story offered about 9/11 with a critical eye, all of which basically allege that the White House and US intelligence agencies have covered up their own, complicated roles in the terror attacks of 2001. Scott's new book makes some reference to and generally builds upon a number of those works, but simultaneously encompasses a far broader sweep, wields (conversely) a simpler, more direct argument, and provides a new level of hard-to-argue-with credibility to the process of naming specific names.

The first lengthy section of the book features Scott's run through of recent events in US history, with an emphasis on various 'shadow government' elements of the US political system, and how these elements have moved into the foreground in recent years. (Scott uses the term `shadow government' to encompass the various avenues used by governments - not just in the US - to undertake certain activities off the books, under the radar, or illegally). Scott notes the disintegration of the Nixon presidency as being a starting-point for slowly building incidents and trends related to an active `shadow government' that have re-emerged in the disaster of 9/11 and the subsequent, seemingly comprehensive cover-up.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsWhen Eloquence and Conscience Collide
By Gianmarco Manzione on October 25, 2007
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Though Scott occasionally becomes boringly preoccupied with the minutiae of the 9/11 Commission Report and the unanswered questions it evades, his "Conclusion" chapter features the most eloquent call for unity and change that I have encountered in a long time. His affiliation with so-called "conspiracy theorists" such as David Ray Griffin may mislead readers into associating Scott with the stigma of the "9/11 Truth" movement, but this is hardly the kind of hysterical and paranoid alarmism you might expect to find from some of that movement's high priests. Scott's indifference to ad hominem logical warfare and hasty assertions distinguishes this skeptical look at the official 9/11 story from the bellicose flamboyance of fear-mongering demagogues like Alex Jones.

Scott makes careful and intelligent distinctions between "shameless lies" and "carefully crafted falsehoods" while illuminating the importance of such distinctions to a greater understanding of how an "overworld" of ruling elites manufactures reality. Particularly enlightening is his finding that Saddam Hussein was behind a concerted effort within OPEC to do what American oil executives and government officials consider the unthinkable: "allow some OPEC oil sales to be paid in Euros."

The deal the Nixon administration struck with Saudis in the early 1970s was to compel OPEC to denominate oil in U.S. dollars in exchange for funds and materials needed to further develop their oil resources and, ultimately, their economy. Additionally, this deal allowed OPEC to price oil much higher than ever before.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsStunning Work of Immense Value to Every American
By Robert David STEELE Vivas HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER on September 3, 2007
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I put this book down in something of a daze. This is one of the top five books relevant to understanding Dick Cheney, 9/11, Iraq, and the demise of the Republic.

This author is a Nobel-level researcher who has specialized in cover-ups and conspiracies, who with this book has fourteen serious books in being, a few of them poetry of a serious nature.

The book begins with a lovely list of nineteen trailblazers that is galringly incomplete, but a nice touch and worthy of note.

As I worked my way through the book I was thinking to myself that this author has brought together, in one volume in which half the pages are endnotes, much of what I have been trying to address in my 950+ reviews and my lists on Cheney and 9/11 and anti-Americanism.

The author is superbly credible and well-written in documenting the many miscalculations that have been the result of the intersection between Saudi Arabia, Texas and Geneva, and aggravated (my own view) by Zionists and Israeli genocide against the Palestinians and the Lebanese. I have a note, "tontos utiles," which is what Americans are called in Latin America: "useful idiots." In reality, Cheney is not an idiot, he is simply the most amoral war criminal to ever sit in the Oval Office.

The author is extremely good at showing how Cheney's power emerged with the creation of the Continuity of Operations (COG) parallel government during the Reagan Administration.Read more ›
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Published 4 months ago by Lisa Hardy
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent and provocative book

This book is not so much about 9/11 as about the ineptitude of US foreign policy since the 1960s. It moves away from the ‘surface’ and chronicles the secret deals, secret funding,... Read more

Published 12 months ago by Bruce T.
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I have not read too much yet but so far it is interesting and am learning what really happened. I think we did not really hear the truth behind the attack so this book will reveal... Read more

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Published 18 months ago by EDaddy
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There is a general impression that the event itself of 9/11 is responsible for the erosion of Constitutional rights culminated in the Patriot Act. Read more

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Published on May 11, 2014 by Alfred Melbourne
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Filled with crucial history to make sense of how the "deep state" got it's start, this book is a true eye opener to the events that lead up to 9/11. Read more

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Published on August 5, 2013 by DicKehoe
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