Failed States

"It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light."—The New York Times Book Review

"Forget Iraq and Sudan—America is the foremost failed state, argues the latest polemic from America's most controversial Left intellectual. Chomsky contends the U.S. government wallows in lawless military aggression (the Iraq war is merely the latest example); ignores public opinion on everything from global warming to social spending and foreign policy; and jeopardizes domestic security by under-funding homeland defense . . . Disdaining euphemisms, he denounces American 'terror' and 'war crimes,' castigates the public-bamboozling 'government-media propaganda campaign' and floats comparisons to Mongols and Nazis. Chomsky's fans will love it, but even mainstream critics are catching up to the substance of his take on Bush Administration policies; meanwhile his uncompromising moral sensibility, icy logic and withering sarcasm remain in a class by themselves. Required reading for every thoughtful citizen."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)