The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger

Synopsis

"The collection strikes a blackly comic but erudite tone."–Sophia Nguyen, The Washington PostKissinger is dead but his blood-soaked legacy enduresIf the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, then Henry Kissinger is the ghoul haunting its hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive rounds of growing pains. For multiple generations of anti-war activists, Kissinger personified the depravity of the American war machine.The world Kissinger wrought is the world we live in, 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. And breaking that cycle means placing the twin evils of capitalism and imperialism in our crosshairs.In this book, Jacobin follows Kissinger&’s fiery trajectory around the world — not because he was evil incarnate, but because he, more than any other public figure, illustrates the links between capitalism, empire, and the feedback loop of endless war-making that still plagues us today.

Copyright:

2024

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781788730327

Related ISBNs:

9781788730303

Publisher:

Verso Books

Date of Addition:

01/02/24

Copyrighted By:

Verso

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Bhaskar Sunkara

Edited by:

Rene Rojas

Edited by:

Jonah Walter

Introduction by:

Greg Grandin