The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this is a cogent and powerful statement against the American war in Vietnam. It critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal intellectuals - the "new mandarins" - who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people. With a new forward by Howard Zinn, Chomsky's book - available for the first time in several years - is a renewed call for independent analysis of America's role in the world.
Author Biography
Noam Chomsky is Professor of Linguistics at MIT. A world-renowned scholar and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including Manufacturing Consent, Deterring Democracy, and Reflections on Language. Howard Zinn is Professor Emeritus at Boston University.
