'An inspired, iconoclastic work of social science that also takes deadly aim at the reigning paradigms of inquiry: notably the dominant doctrines of political science, but also the more tacit or hidden ideas and assumptions that inform the daily media analysis of American politics and international affairs...He also presents a fascinating and unusual account of how technology affects our lives - but above all, how dominant elites want us to think technology affects our lives. When you catch Jacobean's drift amid his clever dead reckonings, you will catch up with the new way to think about our world' - Bruce Cumings, John Evans Professor of International History and Politics, Northwestern University.