The Pornography of Power; How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
New York: Twelve, 2008. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 250, [2] pages. Index, Signed by the author on the title page. Slight DJ wear. Robert Scheer (born April 4, 1936) is an American journalist who writes a column for Truthdig that is nationally syndicated by Creators Syndicate in publications such as The Huffington Post and The Nation. In 1962 in Berkeley, California, Scheer along with David Horowitz, Maurice Zeitlin, Phil Roos, and Sol Stern founded Root and Branch: A Radical Quarterly, one of the first campus New Left journals. He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Scheer is editor-in-chief for the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig. Truthdig has become one of the most critically acclaimed Internet-based news sites in the world. Among the site's most influential stories was an atheist manifesto by philosopher Sam Harris and a searing tribute to slain U.S. Army Ranger and former NFL star Pat Tillman, by his brother. Derived from a Kirkus review: Longtime political journalist Scheer—former editor of the long-defunct but much missed Ramparts magazine and proud owner of a thick FBI file notes, having discussed the matter with Nixon himself, the Nixonian policy of détente in the waning days of the Cold War gave the neocons of today their raison d’être, a policy to revile and undermine. Those neocons, gathered around Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, took their Cold War very seriously and, by Scheer’s account, were at a loss to know what to do with themselves once the Berlin Wall fell. Many, such as Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, wrapped themselves in the flag of the so-called Project for a New American Century, one of whose fundamental tenets was overthrowing the regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Before 9/11, writes Scheer, they labored quietly in various Bush administration posts. Afterward, they had the run of things, and they went on an spending spree. Scheer allows for nonpecuniary motives. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Defense Department, Militarism, Pentagon, Political Freedom, Political Science, Cold War, Neoconservatives, Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Military-Industrial Complex, Richard Perle, September 11
ISBN: 9780446505277
[Book #76624]
Price: $50.00