American Power and the New Mandarins

The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this is a cogent and powerful statement against the American war in Vietnam. It critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting 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. With a new forward by Howard Zinn, Chomsky's book - available for the first time in several years - is a renewed call for independent analysis of America's role in the world. 

Softcover. English. Pelican. 1969. 319pp. In fair condition. Book No: 26555