Shadow Government

Praise for Tom Engelhardt's "The United States of Fear" "Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid. . . . A stunning polemic."--Mike DavisPraise for "The American War of War" "A tour de force."--Jeremy ScahillIn 1964, a book entitled "The I [...]
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Praise for Tom Engelhardt's "The United States of Fear" "Tom Engelhardt, as always, focuses his laser-like intelligence on a core problem that the media avoid. . . . A stunning polemic."--Mike DavisPraise for "The American War of War" "A tour de force."--Jeremy ScahillIn 1964, a book entitled "The Invisible Government" shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later, everything about that "invisible government" has grown vastly larger, more disturbing, and far more visible. In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. "Shadow Government" offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized.Tom Engelhardt created and runs the TomDispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He is the author of "The American Way of War" and "The United States of Fear," both published by Haymarket Books; a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the cold war, "The End of Victory Culture"; and of a novel, "The Last Days of Publishing." He lives in New York.Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the "Guardian."