{"product_id":"9781595582294","title":"Pretensions to Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePretensions to Empire\u003c\/i\u003e brings together Lewis Lapham’s recent political commentaries from his National Magazine Award–winning \u003ci\u003eHarper’s \u003c\/i\u003e“Notebook” column, beginning with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and culminating in Lapham’s eloquent (and widely cited) case for the impeachment of George W. Bush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the highly literate and “self-assured style” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) that has earned Lapham a large and devoted readership, the pieces in this collection provide not only a critical perspective on Bush’s presidency—helping us understand what happened and how it happened—but also vital new information and research, including a brilliant dissection of the Republican propaganda mill’s octopus-like network and its role in the neoconservative ascent to power. As Lapham writes in the book’s preface, “these essays describe a march of folly, establish a record of moral incompetence and criminal intent, speak to the character of a government stupefied by its worship of money and blinded by its belief in miracles.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElegant and erudite, \u003ci\u003ePretensions to Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a “rousing” indictment of a stumbling political regime from the “loquacious lion of the literary left” (\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036803350768,"sku":"9781595582294","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781595582294_p0.jpg?v=1763810477","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781595582294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}