American Power And The New Mandarins
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of political criticism, American Power and the New Mandarins presents a searing indictment of U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era and the intellectual class that legitimised it. Chomsky argues with razor-sharp precision that a new breed of technocratic scholars — the new mandarins — had subordinated moral and intellectual integrity to the demands of state power. The collection of essays chronicles the mechanisms by which academics and policy experts became willing architects of American imperialism, providing ideological cover for military aggression and social control. Written with both scholarly rigour and passionate moral conviction, the book remains one of the most influential critiques of the relationship between knowledge, power, and political responsibility in modern American history.
Author: Noam Chomsky
Format: Paperback
Published: 1969, Pelican Books (Penguin)
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of political criticism, American Power and the New Mandarins presents a searing indictment of U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War era and the intellectual class that legitimised it. Chomsky argues with razor-sharp precision that a new breed of technocratic scholars — the new mandarins — had subordinated moral and intellectual integrity to the demands of state power. The collection of essays chronicles the mechanisms by which academics and policy experts became willing architects of American imperialism, providing ideological cover for military aggression and social control. Written with both scholarly rigour and passionate moral conviction, the book remains one of the most influential critiques of the relationship between knowledge, power, and political responsibility in modern American history.