He is a former member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Tom Weiner, a dialogue director and voice artist best known for his roles in video games and television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Transformers, is the winner of eight Earphones Awards and Audie Award finalist. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, Nation, and. In a new edition that addresses recent international events from 9/11 to the war in Iraq, this now classic book remains as prescient and powerful as ever.Ĭhalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, is the author of the bestselling books Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis, which make up his Blowback Trilogy. In this incisive and controversial book, Chalmers Johnson lays out in vivid detail the dangers faced by our overextended empire, which insists on projecting its military power to every corner of the earth and using American capital and markets to force global economic integration on its own terms.įrom a case of rape by US servicemen in Okinawa to our role in Asia's financial crisis, from our early support for Saddam Hussein to our conduct in the Balkans, Johnson reveals the ways in which our misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. The term 'blowback,' invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American actions abroad. Physical Information: 1.17' H x 6.79' W x 6.39' (0.63 lbs)įeatures: Price on Product - Canadian, Unabridged Political Science | International Relations - General Chalmers details the dangers faced by our overextended empire and shows how misguided policies are planting the seeds of future disaster. In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeksĪnnotation: The term blowback, invented by the CIA, refers to the unintended consequences of American actions abroad. A New York Times bestseller, Nemesis is Chalmers Johnson’s fiercest bookand his best (Andrew J. Urn:oclc:872607664 Republisher_date 20140607101323 Republisher_operator Scandate 20140607035542 Scanner : The Costs and Consequences of American EmpireĬontributor(s): Johnson, Chalmers (Author), Weiner, Tom (Read by)īinding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions OL17729256W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.75 Pages 294 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0316854867 Urn:lcp:blowback00chal:epub:76c44c5e-ea00-45e2-a756-981165a52949 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier blowback00chal Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7hq6mj6d Invoice 11 Isbn 0805062394ĩ780805062397 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL7932542M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:23:39 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1119303 Boxid_2 BWB220140929 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1.

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