{"product_id":"dreaming-war-9781560255024","title":"Dreaming War","description":"When Gore Vidal's recent\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace was published, the Los Angeles Times described Vidal as the last defender of the American republic. In Dreaming War, Vidal continues this defense by confronting the Cheney-Bush junta head on in a series of devastating essays that demolish the lies American Empire lives by, unveiling a counter-history that traces the origins of America's current imperial ambitions to the experience of World War Two and the post-war Truman doctrine. And now, with the Cheney-Bush leading us into permanent war, Vidal asks whose interests are served by this doctrine of pre-emptive war? Was Afghanistan turned to rubble to avenge the 3,000 slaughtered on September 11? Or was \"the unlovely Osama chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the frightening logo for our long contemplated invasion and conquest of Afghanistan?\" After all he was abruptly replaced with Saddam Hussein once the Taliban were overthrown. And while \"evidence\" is now being invented to connect Saddam with 9\/11, the current administration are not helped by \"stories in the U.S. press about the vast oil wealth of Iraq which must- for the sake of the free world- be reassigned to U.S. consortiums.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bold Type Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/06\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781560255024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2002 pg. 1836\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/13\/2003 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/27\/2003 pg. 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2003 pg. 955\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2003 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Book Report\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2003 pg. 37\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gore Vidal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659807879324,"sku":"9781560255024","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_403908db-8ae7-444f-843a-1230de1abdf7.jpg?v=1603895504","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dreaming-war-9781560255024","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}