Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: International Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Politics & Law, Adult, New Releases
ISBN: 9781405967143
Published: March 2026
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 416
Format: Paperback
RRP 320.00

Myth of American Idealism

Noam Chomsky, Nathan J. Robinson

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'Truly eye-opening . . . The most accessible and coherent introduction to Chomsky's ideas' Irish Times

The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of 'spreading democracy' - except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many?

In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America's pursuit of global domination - from Washington's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths that dominant elites in the United States continue to push.

Thorough, urgent and provocative, The Myth of...

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lau­reate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numer­ous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, and Who Rules the World?.

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Nathan J. Robinson

Nathan J. Robinson

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