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Turse, Nick

 
9780805089196: The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives (American Empire Project)
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ISBN 10: 0805089195 ISBN 13: 9780805089196
Editorial: Metropolitan Books, 2009

Sinopsis

"Fascinating, no matter where you place yourself on the ideological spectrum."--Wired

Now in paperback, a stunning breakdown of the modern military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives.

From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. He investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with Marvel Comics and NASCAR. Similarly disturbing is the way in which the military, desperate for fresh recruits, has tapped into the "culture of cool" by making "friends" on MySpace.

A striking vision of this brave new world of remote-controlled rats and super-soldiers who need no sleep, The Complex will change our understanding of the militarization of America. We are a long way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is the essential book for understanding its twenty-first-century progeny.

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Acerca del autor

Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the author of The Complex and the research director for the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Nation. Turse's investigations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam have gained him a Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He lives near New York City.

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Editorial
Metropolitan Books
Año de publicación
2009
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ISBN 10 
0805089195
ISBN 13 
9780805089196
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Número de páginas
308
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