American Empire Project

After the Apocalypse

American Empire Project
Andrew Bacevich
Henry Holt and Co.

A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the New York Times bestselling...

Global Discontents

American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky: Interviews with David Barsamian
Henry Holt and Co.

In a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky identifies the “dry kindling” of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.

In wide-ranging discussions with David...

Who Rules the World?

American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky
Picador

A New York Times Bestseller

With a New Afterword

In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the...

Base Nation

American Empire Project
David Vine
Henry Holt and Co.

From Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras, a far-reaching examination of the perils of American military bases overseas

American military bases encircle the globe....

No Good Men Among the Living

American Empire Project
Anand Gopal
Picador

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
WINNER OF THE RIDENHOUR PRIZE

"Essential reading for anyone concerned about how America got Afghanistan...

Breach of Trust

American Empire Project
Andrew J. Bacevich
Picador

The United States has been "at war" for more than a decade. Yet as war has become normalized, a yawning gap has opened between America's soldiers and the society in whose name they fight. For ordinary...

Kill Anything That Moves

American Empire Project
Nick Turse
Picador

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians

The American Empire Project
Winner of the Ridenhour...

Dilemmas of Domination

American Empire Project
Walden Bello
Henry Holt and Co.

From the acclaimed globalization critic, a far-reaching analysis of America's military, economic, and political vulnerability

The empire seems unassailable, but the empire...

Power Systems

American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Henry Holt and Co.

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers

In this new collection of conversations, conducted from...

We Meant Well

American Empire Project
Peter Van Buren
Henry Holt and Co.

"One diplomat's darkly humorous and ultimately scathing assault on just about everything the military and State Department have done—or tried to do—since the invasion of Iraq. The title says...

Dismantling the Empire

American Empire Project
Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt and Co.

From the author of the bestselling Blowback Trilogy, an urgent call to confront America's waning power

In his prophetic book Blowback, published before 9/11, Chalmers Johnson...

Washington Rules

American Empire Project
Andrew J. Bacevich
Henry Holt and Co.

The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change.

Ideal Illusions

American Empire Project
James Peck
Henry Holt and Co.

From a noted historian and foreign-policy analyst, a groundbreaking critique of the troubling symbiosis between Washington and the human rights movement

The United States...

The Limits of Power

American Empire Project
Andrew J. Bacevich
Henry Holt and Co.

From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nation's problems.

The Complex

American Empire Project
Nick Turse
Henry Holt and Co.

"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,...

The Seventh Decade

American Empire Project
Jonathan Schell
Henry Holt and Co.

From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policies

When the cold war ended, many Americans...

Ain't My America

American Empire Project
Bill Kauffman
Henry Holt and Co.

From "the finest literary stylist of the American right," a surprising and spirited account of how true conservatives have always been antiwar and anti-empire (Allan Carlson, author of The...

A People's History of American Empire

American Empire Project
Howard Zinn; Paul Buhle; Mike Konopacki
Henry Holt and Co.

Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form

Since its landmark publication in 1980, A...

What We Say Goes

American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Henry Holt and Co.

Following the New York Times bestseller Hegemony or Survival—an indispensable set of interviews on foreign policy and domestic issues with "America's most useful citizen" (Boston Globe)

Empire's Workshop

American Empire Project
Greg Grandin
Henry Holt and Co.

"Grandin has always been a brilliant historian; now he uses his detective skills in a book that is absolutely crucial to understanding our present."—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

Failed States

American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky
Henry Holt and Co.

The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad—and at home

In the Name of Democracy

American Empire Project
Jeremy Brecher; Jill Cutler; Brendan Smith
Henry Holt and Co.

A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?

Until recently, the possibility that the...

Nemesis

American Empire Project
Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt and Co.

The long-awaited final volume of Chalmers Johnson's bestselling
Blowback trilogy confronts the overreaching of the American empire and the threat it poses to the republic

Iraq

American Empire Project
Anthony Arnove
Henry Holt and Co.

"An urgent book."—Arundhati Roy

Three years after the start of the war in Iraq, violence and misery continue to plague the country, and conservatives and liberals alike are struggling...

A Question of Torture

American Empire Project
Alfred McCoy
Henry Holt and Co.

"An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation)

In this revelatory account...

Devil's Game

American Empire Project
Robert Dreyfuss
Henry Holt and Co.

"The most clear and engaging history of the deadly, historic partnership between Western powers and political Islam."—Salon.com

Devil's Game is the first comprehensive account...

Imperial Ambitions

American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Henry Holt and Co.

In this first collection of interviews since the
bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy

Timely, urgent,...

Blood and Oil

American Empire Project
Michael T. Klare
Henry Holt and Co.

In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael Klare alerted us to the role of resources in conflicts in the post-cold-war world. Now, in Blood and Oil, he concentrates...

Crusade

American Empire Project
James Carroll
Henry Holt and Co.

"The war in Iraq has been a victory of moral fervor over moral clarity. The first without the second is a curse on itself. James Carroll brings to bear-I hope not too late-the moral clarity we...

The Sorrows of Empire

American Empire Project
Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt and Co.

"Impressive . . . a powerful indictment of U.S. military and foreign policy."
-Los Angeles Times Book Review, front page

In the years after the Soviet Union imploded,...

Hegemony or Survival

American Empire Project
Noam Chomsky; With a New Afterword by the Author
Henry Holt and Co.

"Reading Chomsky today is sobering and instructive . . . He is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet." -The New York Times Book...

Blowback, Second Edition

American Empire Project
Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt and Co.

Now with a new and up-to-date Introduction by the author, the bestselling account of the effect of American global policies, hailed as "brilliant and iconoclastic" (Los Angeles Times)

Blowback

American Empire Project
Chalmers Johnson
Henry Holt and Co.

An explosive account of the resentments American policies are sowing around the world and of the payback that will be our harvest in the twenty-first century.

Blowback,...