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In 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.

In his new book The United States of Fear, 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.

This 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.

Think 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.
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Customers find the book insightful and thought-provoking. They appreciate the clear analysis of the present decline, good background research, and new perspective. The book provides facts and opinions supporting the author's thesis that the U.S. empire is some combination of evil and stupid.

"...I am absorbing this author's well presented, fact-based presentation of what is happening while we in America fall even deeper and deeper into the..." Read more

"...you are comfortable sifting through the bias, there is some really great information, and he makes some pretty interesting points..." Read more

"...the core arguments of this book, gives a very clear and compelling analysis for why and how the present decline of The American Empire has evolved..." Read more

"...Presents facts and opinions supporting his thesis that the U.S. empire is some combination of evil, stupid, in trouble, and dominated by its military..." Read more

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Customers find the book engaging and informative. They say it's worth reading, a valuable resource, and a great purchase.

"Well written; good read. Very enlightening, but also pretty heavily biased toward the left...." Read more

"Great book What else can I say? This is a great purchase a one of a kind theme from a unique author, this is more than awesome." Read more

"Once again, Tom writes a stellar critique. He always seems to hit home runs with his articles and books...." Read more

"The book is well worth reading; however the content suffers from the absence of editing. Several sentences were pure nonsense...." Read more

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"This is a book that is quite biased per the author's political beliefs, but that doesn't change the validity of what he is saying...." Read more

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    I am reading this work, pausing, contemplating the author's presentation, his argument and feeling so many feelings. I have a sense of gratitude to the author. Gratitude for his valor in writing this book. Perhaps his act will be one of the last reference points for what valor used to mean before it became a meaningless logo, perhaps the name of a new video training game to prepare our video game warriors to operate multiple drones over multiple sites. I am absorbing this author's well presented, fact-based presentation of what is happening while we in America fall even deeper and deeper into the sleep of our self-involved issues: our inability to share wealth, our inability to care for our sick, our unwillingness to value the child in our country, to provide a quality public education system, to address poverty...it is a hard book to read. It is an inconvenient truth, one of the thousands of calls to awareness, acceptance and action in this nation of its diminishing seemingly emasculated or deeply drugged, or tremendously distracted society. Perhaps it takes an act of valor to read it....but no, that's not valor either. Valor is something I am wondering about today. Thank you to the author and publishers for putting this forward. I am surprised that more reviews have not been posted...maybe I shouldn't be. Perhaps the only valorous thing a citizen can do is get active, protest, confront and try to maintain a view of workability and a better day for the world, its current state, its future.
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    Well written; good read. Very enlightening, but also pretty heavily biased toward the left. However, if you are comfortable sifting through the bias, there is some really great information, and he makes some pretty interesting points (coming from a centered voter). I definitely appreciated the new perspective. If you are interested in economics (war/peace perspective), history, or just trying to follow the many military conquests of the U.S. You will enjoy this.
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    Engelhardt's work, always incisive on military matters -- I almost wrote, "national security," but that would be surrendering to fear -- here extends his analysis beyond the bombs-and-bullets crowd to consider how else the nation's fear of a non-existent boogeyman has warped and twisted the American nation, society, and culture so that they are almost unrecognizable from the pre-Cold War days. "Over a cliff!" Tom warns. Too late. In the four months since the book was published, the US has gone from wrack to ruin. Speculation on gasoline, a quarter of the nation's mortgages "underwater," wildly unfair taxation, the ownership of our politics by whoever coughs up enough millions, vast credit debt, and of course military spending have just about used up our opportunities for change. Now we will bear the bloom of the dragon's teeth planted over the last seven decades. Two hundred years to build a nation, 70 to tear it down. Welcome the Dark Ages. Tom can prepare us, he can't save us. Sigh.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars The Clown car drives over the Cliff
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    The American way of war viewed as an addiction to spending, to a self-intoxication of believing one own fantasies, of viewing the world through imperial war supremist ambitions. Tom Engelhardt who’s TomDispatch.com was the vehicle for the many essays that formed the core arguments of this book, gives a very clear and compelling analysis for why and how the present decline of The American Empire has evolved and the tragedy it presents to our Planet as well as our failing democracy. While this book printed in 2011 is out of date in the current context of our Trump nose dive to the bottom Presidency, it’s analysis is still spot on and nothing that is happening currently changes the basis of the core problems and political impairments while a updated version of this thesis would be appreciated and valuable it wouldn’t change the diagnosis at the time this book was published The patient was in great need of intervention of being committed to a treatment program and many years of intensive counseling and forced sobriety nothing of the sort happened instead the Patient (meaning us) has gone off the deep end, and currently is in the middle of a deep dark bender that is not going to end well this is exactly what the author predicted back in 2011 the great imperial power on a downhill slide and now to view it from the backseat of the car as it fly's down a steep hill watching as our country drive itself over a cliff.

    Author 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.

    Think 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.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and well written
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    Once again, Tom writes a stellar critique. He always seems to hit home runs with his articles and books. His website is a daily must read, and this book should be required reading.
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    Interesting, if perhaps somewhat biased, analysis of the U.S. in recent years through Obama's first term. Presents facts and opinions supporting his thesis that the U.S. empire is some combination of evil, stupid, in trouble, and dominated by its military. IMHO, many of his points are valid and thought-provoking, though many also probably go too far. It would be interesting to read a follow-up book with his assessment of the Trump and early Biden years.
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