'One of the greatest most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the
American empire as it will as it must Noam Chomsky's work will survive' Arundhati Roy
From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US
power poses to humanity's future 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 offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths
that dominant elites in the United States continue to push. Offering penetrating accounts of
Washington's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
they examine how interventions such as these have been justified with noble stories about
humanitarian missions and benevolent intentions but are now driving us closer to wars with
Russia and China. At once thorough and devastating urgent and provocative The Myth of
American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions Noam Chomsky has come to
after a lifetime of thought and activism. 'The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism
. . . the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar' Guardian
