The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger (Jacobin) - Tapa blanda

 
9781788730303: The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger (Jacobin)
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ISBN 10: 1788730305 ISBN 13: 9781788730303
Editorial: Verso Books, 2024

Sinopsis

If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion. For multiple generations of antiwar activists, Kissinger personified the depravity of the US war machine. The Good Die Young assesses a career too frequently applauded in essays from respected scholars and journalists such as Gerald Horne, Carolyn Eisenberg, and Chip Gibbons, with an introduction from Bancroft Prize-winner Greg Grandin.

The world Kissinger wrought is one we live in today, where ideal investment conditions are generated from the barrel of a gun. Today, global capitalism and United States hegemony are underwritten by the most powerful military ever devised. Any political vision worth fighting for must promise an end to the cycle of never-ending wars afflicting the world in the twenty-first century. Breaking that cycle means placing the twin evils of capitalism and imperialism in our crosshairs.

The book follows Kissinger's fiery trajectory across the globe, covering Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. More than any other public figure, the life and career of this man illustrate the links between capitalism, empire, and the feedback loop of endless conflict that plagues us today.

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Acerca de los autores

René Rojas is a sociologist studying neoliberalism in the Southern Cone. Originally from Chile, he received his PhD from New York University in 2016.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine, founder and editorial director of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. Sunkara is a Guardian US columnist who has published more than two hundred articles and essays about politics in outlets like the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, and Le Monde.

Jonah Walters is a researcher at Jacobin and a doctoral student in geography at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Greg Grandin is the author of Empire's Workshop, The Last Colonial Massacre, Who is Rigoberta Menchú?, the award-winning The Blood of Guatemala, and the 2009 National Book Awards finalist Fordlandia. A professor of history at New York University and a Guggenheim fellow, Grandin has served on the United Nations Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Nation, New Statesman, and New York Times.

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Editorial
Verso Books
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1788730305
ISBN 13 
9781788730303
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
156
Editor
Rojas Rene, Sunkara Bhaskar, Walters Jonah
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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