American Power and the New Mandarins
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American Power and the New Mandarins is a 1969 collection of political essays by Noam Chomsky that sharply criticizes U.S. foreign policy and intellectual complicity in the Vietnam War.
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book
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essay collection → |
| author |
Noam Chomsky
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| criticizes |
U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia
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U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War → liberal elites → technocratic intellectuals → |
| discusses |
U.S. interventionism
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bureaucratic decision-making in war → limits of academic neutrality → |
| focusesOn |
ideology of the Cold War
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moral responsibility of scholars → role of intellectuals in society → |
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non-fiction
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political essays → |
| hasAuthorProfession |
linguist
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political activist → public intellectual → |
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print
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| hasInfluenced |
anti-war discourse in the United States
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critical scholarship on U.S. foreign policy → |
| hasTheme |
complicity of intellectuals
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moral responsibility in wartime → power and ideology → state violence → |
| language |
English
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| mainSubject |
American imperialism
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U.S. foreign policy → Vietnam War → intellectual responsibility → political dissent → |
| notableFor |
early major political work by Noam Chomsky
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sharp critique of U.S. liberal intellectuals → |
| originallyPublishedIn |
United States
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| partOf |
Noam Chomsky bibliography
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| politicalOrientation |
anti-war
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left-wing → |
| publicationYear |
1969
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| publisher |
Pantheon Books
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| setInContextOf |
Vietnam War era
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| timePeriodDiscussed |
1960s
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Cold War → |
| title |
American Power and the New Mandarins
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Noam Chomsky
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American Power and the New Mandarins
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Edward S. Herman
("The Political Economy of Human Rights")
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