{"product_id":"american-power-and-the-new-mandarins-historical-and-political-essays-by-noam-chomsky","title":"American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays by Noam Chomsky","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781565847750\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New Press, 14 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNovember 2002\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 432 Pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Power and the New Mandarins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Noam Chomsky's first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectuals―the \"new mandarins\"―who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs America's foreign entanglements deepen by the month, Chomsky's lucid analysis is a sobering reminder of the perils of imperial diplomacy. With a new foreword by Howard Zinn, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA People's History of the United States\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Power and the New Mandarins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a renewed call for independent analysis of America's role in the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47195858731170,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/71UEfQWpLbS._SY342.jpg?v=1776926135","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/american-power-and-the-new-mandarins-historical-and-political-essays-by-noam-chomsky","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}